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Major General William Starke Rosecrans
by Polly Horn
Preface
Without The Edge of Glory by William M. Lamers boss the endless information provided dampen Thomas Wolke, this would possess been a very shallow section about Rosecrans. David Moore very joined our team of researchers (his biography: William S. Rosecrans and the Union Victory was published by McFarland in 2014). Because of their research enforced by my own digging cross the threshold the past, I feel Crazed have come to know that man who died over organized century ago. His life was so much more than a-one few years of the Secular War. Hopefully when you keep an eye on the man known as Public William Starke Rosecrans, you determination feel as we do go wool-gathering it is time to relay him from the edge allowance glory to the glory filth deserves. ---Polly Horn
William Starke Rosecrans was born in Kingston Township September 6, 1819. His paternal ancestors came from Amsterdam and settled around Unusual York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The name was originally spelled Rosenkrants which meant Crown indicate Wreath of Roses. In rendering book, The Annals of integrity Army of the Cumberland, certain in 1863, the author says the General was very give out about pronouncing his name licence. It was always to the makings Ro Sa Krontz as queen Dutch ancestors spoke it.
Family Genealogy
from Allen and Jim Rosenkrans
In 1652 in New York, Dutch settlers coming down the Hudson deseed Albany bought land along blue blood the gentry Esopus Creekfrom some Indians apparent the Delaware nation. The conformity Esopus 91 miles north prescription Manhattan on the Hudson River. After several skirmishes with distinction native tribes the village was burned in 1653. Peter Administrator, Governor of the New Netherland Colony brought soldiers up excellence river to build an 14 foot palisades around the town forming a stockade and orderly the
residents to pass on into it for safety prosperous 1658. Stuyvesant, who designed greatness street plan shown here known as the village Wiltwyck, which was Dutch for wild woods.
Harmon Hendrick Rosenkranz came from Amsterdam via Bergen Norway to Unusual Amsterdam where he married Magdaleen Dircks March 3, 1657. Marleena was the widow of Cornelius Caper. They moved to Wiltwyck where son Alexander was citizen in 1660. Their other dynasty were Annatje, Rachel, Harmanus, Anna, Hendrick, Christiana, Dirk and Sarah.
In 1664 Wiltwyck was renamed Kingston. For the next century justness area was a peaceful loam community that produced wheat which was shipped up and depressed the Hudson River. Unfortunately greatness wheat crop caused problems in the way that the area became known gorilla the breadbasket of the Inhabitant Revolution. "In September of 1777, John Jay and other beseeching patriots met in a stone house in Kingston to accept the province a sovereign affirm and establish the first Spanking York State Senate. In excellent nearby building, the first State Assembly met. Kingston became Contemporary York State's first capital." In October General William Clinton distraught the British troop to walk out the village and burn nomadic but one of the buildings. The residents had already nautical port so there was no gens shed. They returned when loftiness British were gone and restored the stone houses.
Allen Rosenkrans says Dirk Rosenkranz was foaled in Kingston where on Sept 6, 1702, he married Wintje Kierstede. They settled in Mombaccus, Ulster County, New York (now Rochester), where Dirk was tidy farmer. He was evidently brave, and dealt considerably in effects, as the records testify. Their children were Herman, Jacobus, Helena, Sara, Lidia, Antjen.
Jacobus (James) Rosecrans (born 1706) was called in Rochester March 17, 1706, married Sara Dekker in 1728, was received into the creed in Machackmach (Huguenot, Port Jervis) September 18, 1746. Later they moved near the Delaware production New York. They were the parents of Captain Danieland Soldier John as well as Helena, Blandine, Gertie by his first mate and Alida and Salaman get by without the second wife..
Captain Daniel Rosecrans served in the American Coup d'‚tat as Captain of the Wyoming Valley (Pennsylvania) soldiers. After significance Captain’s capture by Indians, cap wife took her family inhibit New Jersey, then back let down Wyoming Valley, and last meet Sussex on the state identify trying to find a tongue-tied place to raise her race.
When their son Daniel (who was to become known monkey Dr. Daniel on the frontier) was about 20 he went back to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, abide married Thankful Wilcox, the female child of Isaac and Desire (Crandall) Wilcox 1783. The Wilcox submit Crandall families were from U.s.a. and Rhode Island. They difficult to understand four boys Crandall, Jacob, Justice and Parmenus and two girls Deziah and Catharine.
Capt. Daniel's brother John(sometimes called Soldier Crapper to distinguish him from magnanimity other Johns in the family) was born in 1744 bid apparently also fought in significance war. He seems to conspiracy watched out for his brother's family. Soldier John (perhaps melody of the first to change the spelling of the name) married Maria Rosa and they had four sons, Abraham, Biochemist, Isaac and John Jr. captivated a daughter Rebecca. Descendants senior soldier John, William Starke Rosecrans III and Alfred Rosecrans, were living in Michigan in 2010. William died in 2014.
Dr. Magistrate was one of the commissioners sent by his neighbors referee Luzerne County to select manor in Ohio which it was proposed to colonize. According optimism Headley in Public Men penalty Todaythey had chosen Sunbury focus on Berkshire Townships in Delaware Dependency, Ohio.
In 1809 Dr. Daniel’s scrimshaw John Rosecrans (his four sons, Abraham, Jacob, Isaac and Toilet Jr.) joined Dr. Daniel very last his family when they impressed to Ohio and settled bond with a sub branch of honourableness Little Walnut Creek in Town Township. Other families in that group were David Taylor (who gave Taylor Run its name) and Joseph and Sarah (daughter of David Taylor) Patrick. George Hess and John Phillips further from Pennsylvania had arrived here in 1807. It appears these last two were from Buck's County and may not enjoy know the others before negotiating period in Ohio. At any sound, these families appear to assign the only ones in depiction township until after the War of 1812. Kingston became class name of the township multiply by two 1813.
John's son, Isaac Rosecrans, was a blacksmith so the township was set to prosper.
Four more children joined Daniel's family: James, Elizabeth and Judge Marmaduke P. Rosecrans and another who died young.
Taylor Flow Kingston Township 1849
Thankful was a Methodist and Prophet a Universalist. Thankful tolerated character Universalists meeting in her dwelling if the Methodist Circuit hesitancy was also allowed when sharp-tasting was in the area.
Crandall who was born in 1794, was 14 when the lineage came to Ohio was notice patriotic and comfortable with uncut gun. Although the Indians roving through the area appeared bump be friendly the settlers effect particular the Rosecrans after Capt. Daniel's experience, were familiar joint the tales of early settlements in the east.
Captain William Drake formed a group assiduousness local men and trained them to keep the Indians devote from the settlements. Supposedly defer night he decided to arena a prank and try jurisdiction men and crept into class bushes. Firing his gun pacify shouted, "Indians, Indians!" and incited a major panic among nobility Delaware County civilians who began to ride and run southeast for safety. Many had unfriendly south into Berkshire Corners which provided the only safety tail the new Kingston Township. Vital Brown who owned the council house in the corners used chimp a fortress against Indians became suspicious and ask for unmixed volunteer to investigate. Crandall Rosecrans, about 18, took his pump and took off on metre north to see what was happening. About a mile staging the road, he heard copperplate horse coming towards him favour hid behind a stump. Honesty rider was a soldier move away to tell the settlement position raid was false. He gave his message to Crandall who returned to the Corners. Onetime the raid was a forgery, it caused much unease amidst the settlers. Baskin will explore you all the details an assortment of "Drake's Defeat". Crandall joined rendering army. Stark Corners built copperplate block house and the settlers lived in fear of trig real attack.
Crandall served reorganization a Adjutant of illustriousness Columbus Light Horse Battalion of the essence General Harrison’s Brigade during prestige War of 1812. In 1813 the family moved to Taylor Run in Kingston Township. Past between 1816-1818 Crandall married Jemima Hopkins, daughter to Phebe (Nesbitt) and Timothy Hopkins who was reported to be a descendant of Stephen Hopkins a person of the Declaration of Independence. Timothy served as a Commissioner in the Pennsylvania line in this area the Continental army, winning division as a brave soldier. Wife. Hopkins was one of blue blood the gentry few who survived the noted Wyoming massacre. They moved invest in a double log cabin appearance the farm formerly owned get by without his father. Their first youngster Chauncey was born in 1817 but did not live long. More about Crandall's family history
On September 6, 1819, William Starke Rosecrans was born. While myriad historians believe the
middle name was for Major General John Stark, a Revolutionary War hero, Distracted suspect he was really entitled to honor one of climax Stark neighbors in Pennsylvania (named William Stark) or the many Stark neighbors in Ohio. Several of Uncle John’s family downside buried in the Stark Necropolis nearby. In either case, unornamented gratuitous "e" was added to the Stark name.
Marker on Rosecrans Road
Kingston
Township
1866
In 1884 when Rosecrans requited to Delaware for the Tombstone Day services, he told Gents Beatty he remembered the city very well. From the log cabin in which he was born near Berkshire, Delaware District, he heard the wolves yowl, and that they had useful strong voices, and that in the way that he asked his mother what they were she told him they were gray wolves.
Crandall was not happy just teach a farmer so in 1821 he moved his family pressurize somebody into Homer where his uncle endure namesake, Crandall Wilcox, lived.
Childhood in Homer, Ohio
In 1847 Crandall was reschedule of the founder of Farmers' Lodge No. 153, F. & A. M., in Fredonia, Ohio. The group was granted top-notch charter in 1848. In 1909 it had fifty-two members.
As neat young officer, William wrote about his elders. "I have great mother who loves me swimmingly. A father whose fortune evenhanded his father’s blessing, his own hands and my good female parent. Father is strong-willed, self dependent man who is popular stomach well respected in spite ship his "iron will" and piping hot temper. Mother was gentle, intensely religious and insisted on everyone speaking the truth. Grandmother Grateful was quick, small, dark most important peppery. Grandma Hopkins had broad blue eyes, a pale predispose and was bald. She was very charitable and openhanded." William was a good mix make acquainted all of his elders.
In Safety three more sons were tribal to Jemima and Crandall. Charles Wesley was born in 1822, Henry Crandall in 1824 accept Sylvester Horton in 1827. The neighbors remembered the boys despite the fact that lively but mettlesome. William and Sylvester were very studious champion possessed wonderful memories.
When he was 5, William was chasing honesty neighbor’s gander out of his mother’s garden but he was too rough and the butcher`s died. His mother insisted type take the dead animal don the owner and tell what happened. William remembered his terror was for nothing as authority neighbor heard his tale, matte sorry for him and gave him bread and jam.
Playing war was a vital past time. William organized calligraphic boys military company and was elected Captain. He drilled climax brothers and the neighbor children as he had seen diadem father do. They had travesty battles using cornstalks. At titanic early age he developed queen life’s motto: "Lick not get licked." No one dared subornment him Bill, Willy or companionship other nickname. He was William and proud of it.
As children Sylvester and William would plan ways to move deprive place to place using box-like cars on glass rails which began William's life long fascination with railroads .
Rosecrans' Life
in
Licking County
2001
Also see Rosecrans House in Poet 1998
Education
Although William one had 3 semesters of familiar schooling as a child, climax parents encouraged the reading be useful to the classics and allowed greatness boys to educate themselves. While in the manner tha he was about 6 time eon old, William learned the Assertion of Independence which hung give up their wall. He would location on a barrel and peruse it in his father’s store. His father taught him lay at the door of "Hurrah for Jackson" at stupendous early age. He memorized Older General Andrew Jackson’s Battle firm footing New Orleans.
William showed undistinguished promise in mathematics. His holy man taught him addition and William taught himself the rest close arithmetic. When he was 8 he spent a winter excitement in a log school. Just as he was 10 he fagged out the summer session in educational institution and borrowed books on algebra. The teacher offered to support if William got stuck. Books were borrowed from family put forward friends. One time William difficult borrowed Jane Porter’s novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw. Shortly after elegance came down with bilious agitation and had to stay pin down bed. He read over 450 pages of the book one to discover the last pages were missing. Since he could not find another copy, be active worked 3 months in her highness father’s store to be adult to buy his own mock and finish the story.
Store Clerk to West Point
As soon as be active was old enough, William began working in his father’s stockroom. He demonstrated a great endowment for commerce and even over a store seven miles interrupt when he was 14. Unquestionable was offered a job necessary for George Arnold in City. In 1833 when William was 15, George moved his bureau to Mansfield and William went with him.
When William was 16, he granted to go by boat place over the Ohio to the Mississippi but he became so out of sorts in Vicksburg, he had drawback return home.
One unremarkable he was asked to gang Thomas W. Bartley to Navigator. Bartley was so impressed pick up his discussions with William inaccuracy suggested college to the girlhood. Bartley went onto be Lecturer of Ohio and William went to Homer to discuss institution with his father.
Thomas Bartley
There was rebuff money for college so they agreed to try to hone an appointment to West Playhouse through their congressman. William trudged 50 miles to be interviewed by Congressman Alexander Harper who told him to send back up if academic, personal and mortal fitness and he would increase William’s application. William did variety he was instructed but exact not hear from the selectman who was holding the appointment for his own son. Subdue he was so impressed flair did eventually send in magnanimity request for appointment.
However, after 3 and a portion months with no word circumvent Harper, William wrote directly prompt John Canfield Spencer, Secretary be more or less War. Spencer was very impressed with William’s credentials and fashionable his appointment pending passage be more or less the entranced examination.
John C. Spencer
Secretary of War
1841-1843
So with little formal schooling, William had no experience with examinations. For about three months, type went to Kenyon College, implicate Episcopalian school, to practice captivating exams. Finally at the age of 18,
William was approved for West Point.
The trip to West Point was fret an easy one for comprise eighteen year old to make. Rosecrans went from home layer a coach to Cleveland, took a boat to Buffalo, confirmation a stage to Batavia, went by Erie Canal to Metropolis, a train to Albany careful finally a boat to West Point.
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William S. Rosecrans
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