Samuel Hodgkins Haskell was a farmer.
Served in War of 1812
Enlisted September 19, 1814
Served under Captain Benjamin Haskell in Massachusetts Militia
Served as a sargeant under Lieutenant Colonel James Appleton at the Battle of Gloucester
Discharged October 12, 1814
Bounty land warrant # 102849-160-50, claim # 319279
Widows certificate # WO7438Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 103
A historical discourse delivered at Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 20, 1866 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Winnisimmet Congregation
Micajah Haskell was born at Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 16, 1801, professed religion at Bangor, Me., and united with the First Congregational Church there in 1830; removed to this place in 1841; died, full of hope and peace, Oct. 30, 1850.
Henry Bailey Hascall prepared for college at the Malone Academy, entered Norwich University from Plattsburg in 1854 and remained for two years. He enlisted in the Navy at the outbreak of the Civil War and served until 1865.
Civil War Pension File
Mothers cert # 3744
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Report to 49th Congress
April 6, 1886
The evidence on file in the Pension Department shows that the claimant was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the United States Navy June 30, 1862, and was discharged September 9, 1865. The following is a summary of the services, exposures, and sufferings of claimant while in the service:August 7, 1862, reported to Rear Admiral Du Pont for duty on board the United States gunboat Madgie and did duty on her from that date to October 11, 1863; she was acting as a blockader and picket-boat in the marshes and inland channels and rivers of Georgia and South Carolina; before that she had been condemned as unseaworthy by a board of survey, and was twice so condemned while he was on duty on her, her boilers and flues continuously bursting; her hull was water soaked and leaky, requiring constant pumping; the rain came through her deck in the officers quarters and wet their berths and the living rooms occupied by twelve of the officers, including the claimant, the room being 8 feet by 14 feet in size, and located directly over the furnaces and in the rear of the engine. While in her the claimant was constantly exposed to dampness and the malaria of the marshes. This boat foundered October 11, 1863, the officers and men escaping in small boats and being taken to Hampton Roads. This exposure to dampness and malaria brought on rheumatism.
In January 1864, he reported for duty on board the steamer Chenango. In April 1864, in New York Harbor, the boilers of the steamer exploded. The chief engineer and three other officers were scalded to death. The exertions of the claimant in caring for his dying friends and the shock of the explosion brought on nervous debility, which resulted in sciatic rheumatism, abhorrence of food, inability to sleep and general prostration. After being cared for while on shipboard, he was carried to the house of a friend in Brooklyn. While on the Chenango, Assistant Surgeon D. P. Goodhue, of New Hampshire, attended him.
In August 1864, and before he was fully recovered, he was ordered to take charge of stores on board of the chartered steamboat Aphrodite, bound for the Gulf of Mexico. On the second voyage of that vessel she was wrecked at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and was a total wreck. Twenty men were drowned and missing. The claimant and others were landed on a barren, sandy island, exposed to the weather, which was stormy and cold, with very little food and no fuel for six days. They were taken off in lighters, each containing from seventy to eighty men, through the channel to the fleet, then at Beaufort, a trip lasting twenty four hours, in the midst of a heavy rain, with no covering over them, and so crowded that there was not even room to sit down.
He was then transferred to the United States steamship Mercedita and was ordered to begin transferring men to Admiral Farragut's squadron. This continued about thirty days, when, by proper orders, he reported for duty at the Brooklyn navy yard, where he was directed to take charge of the payment of bounty of the enlisted seamen, paying large sums of money - sometimes as much as $150,000 in a day - until at last, in consequence of his sickness and debility occasioned by his exposure, he was compelled to and did resign.
[ the remaining text covers various testimony on the health before and after the war, and finalizes with recommendation of Commission of Pensions to approve the requested pension]
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New York Herald-Tribune
March 11, 1887
HASCALL - At his residence, 98 Monroe st., Brooklyn Bailey Hascall aged 48 years.Bailey Hascall served as a paymaster in the USN in the Civil War.