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Stevens, Alanson Joshua

MILITARY SERVICE Age: 28, credited to St. Johnsbury, VT Unit(s): 2nd PA INF, IND PA LARTY Service: enl, 4/20/61, m/i Pvt, Co. A, 2nd PA INF, 4/20/61, m/o 7/26/61, Harrisburg, PA; comn 1LT, Btry B Independent PA LARTY, 9/61, pr CAPT, kia 9/20/63, Chickamauga, GA See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALS Birth: 03/07/1833, St. Johnsbury, VT Death: 09/20/1863 Burial: Chickamauga Battlefield, Fort Oglethorpe, GA Marker/Plot: No_Marker Gravestone researcher/photographer: Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, widow Mary J., 12/6/1883, PA not approved Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: Son of Dr. Abner Morrill Stevens, nephew of U.S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)

BURIAL: Copyright notice Chickamauga Battlefield Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.

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Obituary

Captain Alanson J. Stevens, son of the late Dr. Stevens of St. Johnsbury, was killed at the battle of Chickamauga, while trying to get his guns off the field, their position being commanded by the rebels. Capt. Stevens was considered one of the best artillery officers in the army of the Cumberland, and his death much lamented by his brother officers and soldiers as well as his many friends and acquaintances. Some seven or eight years ago he went to Pennsylvania to take charge of his uncle's (Hon. Thaddeus Stevens) iron works, which were burned by the rebels in their raid last year.

Source: Vermont Watchman and State Journal, January 29, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.