Erasmus HATCHELL

1844 - 1864  (20 years)

• Name	Erasmus HATCHELL  [1]
  Birth	1844  [2]
  Gender	Male
  MILI	Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion - Civil War Erasmus was captured alongside Silas on 8 August 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and died of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war on 13 November 1864 (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16); (Compiled Service Records, CW0614 in with Robert H. Hatchell’s record). Private, Company C - He was a 16-year old laborer on his father’s farm in 1860 Marion District, South Carolina (South Carolina 1860 Census, Marion District, Page 34) has no stand-alone record in the Confederate State Roster-South Carolina or the Compiled Service Records for South Carolina. Therefore, his date and place of enlistment and other service information were not determined. The Memory Roll for Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion presents that Erasmus W. Hatchell died a prisoner of war. No date, place or cause is given (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). However, the service record for Private Erasmus W. Hatchell was discovered mixed in with that of Robert H. Hatchell, his brother, who served with Erasmus in Co. C, 3rd Artillery. Robert survived and lived until 4 August 1912. Erasmus’ record was mistakenly combined with his brother’s record as R. W. Hatchell, possibly because his name was misunderstood by the 3rd Artillery Confederate authorities to be Rasmus W. Hatchell. The carded service record compilers in the 1920s mistakenly assumed that R. W. Hatchell, a soldier entered by the war-time adjutant as a member of Company C, was the same soldier as R. H. Hatchell, and, thus, no separate service record was created for Erasmus W. Hatchell or for his mistaken identity, R. W. Hatchell (Compiled Service Records, CW0614); (Holmes Family Tree, hholmes78, Ancestry.com); (Ancestors and Related Families of Kevin L. Privette, Privette, AWT). Private Erasmus Hatchell was captured on 8 August 1864 at Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and subsequently died of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war on 13 November 1864 in St. Louis Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana. He is buried there in Monument Cemetery, Grave 420 (Compiled Service Records, CW0614). His POW record also reveals that he was age 16, a resident of Marion District, South Carolina prior to enlistment, and was the son of William Hatchell of Effingham, Marion District (Compiled Service Records, CW0614 in with Robert H. Hatchell’s record). Fort Gaines was located on Dauphin Island, from where it defied and denied enemy naval entrance into Mobile Bay. On 3 August 1864, 2,000 enemy infantry and artillery were landed on the landward side of Dauphin Island for the purpose of attacking Fort Gaines from the rear. On 7 August, Fort Gaines came under attack from the land and the sea (The Civil War, Red River to Appomattox, Page 497). The official report of Major-General Dabney Herndon Maury, commanding the district, describes the events leading to Private Hatchell’s capture. “Mobile, Monday, August 8, 1864. It is painfully humiliating to announce the shameful surrender of Fort Gaines at 9:30 this morning by Col. Charles D. Anderson, of the 21st Alabama Regiment. This powerful work was provisioned for six months and with a garrison of 600 men. He communicated with the enemy’s fleet by flag of truce without the sanction of General Page. General Page inquired by signal what his purpose was, but received no answer. His attention was attracted by signal guns. Page repeatedly telegraphed, ‘Hold on to your fort.’ The same night visited Fort Gaines and found Anderson on board the Yankee fleet arranging the terms of capitulation. He left peremptory orders for Anderson on his return not to surrender the fort, and relieved him on his command. Fort Morgan signaled this morning (to Fort Gaines), but no answer was received except the hoisting of the Yankee flag over the ramparts of Fort Gaines. Anderson’s conduct is officially pronounced inexplicable and shameful (Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 39, Chapter 51, Part 1, Page 426). Private Hatchell was captured here and sent to prison, where he contracted disease and died. He is listed in one source as R. N. Hatchel (Broken Fortunes, Kirkland, Page 153). Erasmus had five brothers who also served in the South Carolina Confederate army. Richard Furman, Manley Allen, Joel B., Robert H., and Silas Hatchell all served with Silas in Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion (Confederate State Roster-South Carolina). Richard and Allen survived (South Carolina 1880 Census, Marion Distict, Page 241B); (South Carolina 1880 Census, Darlington District, Page 351D), as did Robert (South Carolina 1900 Census, Florence County, Page 61A). Joel was captured on 9 Apr 1865 defending Fort Blakeley, Mississippi in Mobile Bay and died on his way home from Mississippi after his release (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M1). Silas was captured alongside Erasmus on 8 August 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and died of dysentery as a prisoner of war on 5 December 1864 (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). They were the brothers of Ann, Eliza, Mary C., Frances Elizabeth, Carolyn Serpata, and Addie Aresasa. Richard, Allen, Joel, Robert, Ann, Eliza and Mary C. were the children of William Hatchell and his first wife, Mary Allen Hatchell. Silas, Erasmus, Frances Elizabeth, Nancy Ann, Carolyn, and Addie were the children of William and his second wife, Nancy Ann Wilson Hatchell (Ancestors Privette, Privette, AWT). Brothers Spencer W. Hatchell, Co. K, 21st SC Infantry and Theodore C. and William Calvin Hatchell, Co. G, 26th SC Infantry, are in some cases shown as the sons also of William and Mary Allen Hatchell, along with Martha A. and Elizabeth Ellender Hatchell. However, census records indicate that they were the sons and daughters of another William Hatchell family in the Pee Dee, South Carolina, William and Mary Hatchell of Darlington District, South Carolina (South Carolina 1850 Census, Darlington District, Pages 305A & 305B); (Holmes Family Tree, hholmes78, Ancestry.com); (Ancestors and Related Families of Kevin L. Privette, Privette, AWT).  [3, 4]
  MILI	Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion - Civil War Erasmus was captured alongside Silas on 8 August 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and died of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war on 13 November 1864 (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16); (Compiled Service Records, CW0614 in with Robert H. Hatchell’s record). Private, Company C - He was a 16-year old laborer on his father’s farm in 1860 Marion District, South Carolina (South Carolina 1860 Census, Marion District, Page 34) has no stand-alone record in the Confederate State Roster-South Carolina or the Compiled Service Records for South Carolina. Therefore, his date and place of enlistment and other service information were not determined. The Memory Roll for Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion presents that Erasmus W. Hatchell died a prisoner of war. No date, place or cause is given (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). However, the service record for Private Erasmus W. Hatchell was discovered mixed in with that of Robert H. Hatchell, his brother, who served with Erasmus in Co. C, 3rd Artillery. Robert survived and lived until 4 August 1912. Erasmus’ record was mistakenly combined with his brother’s record as R. W. Hatchell, possibly because his name was misunderstood by the 3rd Artillery Confederate authorities to be Rasmus W. Hatchell. The carded service record compilers in the 1920s mistakenly assumed that R. W. Hatchell, a soldier entered by the war-time adjutant as a member of Company C, was the same soldier as R. H. Hatchell, and, thus, no separate service record was created for Erasmus W. Hatchell or for his mistaken identity, R. W. Hatchell (Compiled Service Records, CW0614); (Holmes Family Tree, hholmes78, Ancestry.com); (Ancestors and Related Families of Kevin L. Privette, Privette, AWT). Private Erasmus Hatchell was captured on 8 August 1864 at Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and subsequently died of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war on 13 November 1864 in St. Louis Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana. He is buried there in Monument Cemetery, Grave 420 (Compiled Service Records, CW0614). His POW record also reveals that he was age 16, a resident of Marion District, South Carolina prior to enlistment, and was the son of William Hatchell of Effingham, Marion District (Compiled Service Records, CW0614 in with Robert H. Hatchell’s record). Fort Gaines was located on Dauphin Island, from where it defied and denied enemy naval entrance into Mobile Bay. On 3 August 1864, 2,000 enemy infantry and artillery were landed on the landward side of Dauphin Island for the purpose of attacking Fort Gaines from the rear. On 7 August, Fort Gaines came under attack from the land and the sea (The Civil War, Red River to Appomattox, Page 497). The official report of Major-General Dabney Herndon Maury, commanding the district, describes the events leading to Private Hatchell’s capture. “Mobile, Monday, August 8, 1864. It is painfully humiliating to announce the shameful surrender of Fort Gaines at 9:30 this morning by Col. Charles D. Anderson, of the 21st Alabama Regiment. This powerful work was provisioned for six months and with a garrison of 600 men. He communicated with the enemy’s fleet by flag of truce without the sanction of General Page. General Page inquired by signal what his purpose was, but received no answer. His attention was attracted by signal guns. Page repeatedly telegraphed, ‘Hold on to your fort.’ The same night visited Fort Gaines and found Anderson on board the Yankee fleet arranging the terms of capitulation. He left peremptory orders for Anderson on his return not to surrender the fort, and relieved him on his command. Fort Morgan signaled this morning (to Fort Gaines), but no answer was received except the hoisting of the Yankee flag over the ramparts of Fort Gaines. Anderson’s conduct is officially pronounced inexplicable and shameful (Official Records, Series 1, Vol. 39, Chapter 51, Part 1, Page 426). Private Hatchell was captured here and sent to prison, where he contracted disease and died. He is listed in one source as R. N. Hatchel (Broken Fortunes, Kirkland, Page 153). Erasmus had five brothers who also served in the South Carolina Confederate army. Richard Furman, Manley Allen, Joel B., Robert H., and Silas Hatchell all served with Silas in Co. C, 3rd Artillery Battalion (Confederate State Roster-South Carolina). Richard and Allen survived (South Carolina 1880 Census, Marion Distict, Page 241B); (South Carolina 1880 Census, Darlington District, Page 351D), as did Robert (South Carolina 1900 Census, Florence County, Page 61A). Joel was captured on 9 Apr 1865 defending Fort Blakeley, Mississippi in Mobile Bay and died on his way home from Mississippi after his release (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M1). Silas was captured alongside Erasmus on 8 August 1864 defending Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama and died of dysentery as a prisoner of war on 5 December 1864 (Confederate Historian, Microcopy M16). They were the brothers of Ann, Eliza, Mary C., Frances Elizabeth, Carolyn Serpata, and Addie Aresasa. Richard, Allen, Joel, Robert, Ann, Eliza and Mary C. were the children of William Hatchell and his first wife, Mary Allen Hatchell. Silas, Erasmus, Frances Elizabeth, Nancy Ann, Carolyn, and Addie were the children of William and his second wife, Nancy Ann Wilson Hatchell (Ancestors Privette, Privette, AWT). Brothers Spencer W. Hatchell, Co. K, 21st SC Infantry and Theodore C. and William Calvin Hatchell, Co. G, 26th SC Infantry, are in some cases shown as the sons also of William and Mary Allen Hatchell, along with Martha A. and Elizabeth Ellender Hatchell. However, census records indicate that they were the sons and daughters of another William Hatchell family in the Pee Dee, South Carolina, William and Mary Hatchell of Darlington District, South Carolina (South Carolina 1850 Census, Darlington District, Pages 305A & 305B); (Holmes Family Tree, hholmes78, Ancestry.com); (Ancestors and Related Families of Kevin L. Privette, Privette, AWT).
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  _UID	630395DC58D74EFCBA5FCE80A24F5849491F
  Death	13 Nov 1864	died of typhoid fever as a prisoner of war, St. Louis Hosptial, New Orleans, Lousiana -Civil War   [5]
  Burial	Monument Cemetery, Grave 420, New Orleans, Lousiana   [2]
  Person ID	I302403	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	William HATCHELL,   b. 2 Jan 1805, Effingham, Darlington, South Carolina d. 10 Jan 1888, McMillan Twp., Florence County, South Carolina (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Nancy Ann WILSON
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  _UID	7230966F03954410965AA5FB9028F0622D6F
  Family ID	F202696	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), pages 248, 249, 250. [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), page 248. [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), page 250. [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), page 248-249. [S22754] Herbert O. Chambers, III, (Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1907 Buena Vista Circle, Wilmington, NC 28411-7892 (910)686-4816), page 248, 250.