Served in Wae of 1812
Enlisted January 1, 1813 in Captain Burbank's Company, 21st Infantry
Promoted to Corporal and served under Major General Jacob Brown at the Battle of Sackets Harbour on May 29, 1813.
Discharged May 24, 1815
Bounty land warrant 147-160--12Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 94
Edward and Joseph were living with Ansel Clark, a minister, in Wellington, Ohio, according to the 1860 Lorain County census.Compiled Service Records
Company C, K., 42nd U. S. Colored Infantry
Appointed 2nd Lieutanant May 27, 1864
Muster date, July 16, 1864
Promoted 1st Lieutenant, February 15, 1865, Company K.
Discharged October 31, 1865
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Civil War Pension File
Widow application # 515920, cert # 379855
He is called "Thomas" in family notes.
REF: personal notes on the Haskell family genealogy written by Betsy Ann Haskell Noyes.
Thomas cultivated a farm in Strafford, Vermont, given him by his father, but finding himself embarrassed by becoming surety for ithers, was obliged in 1812, to sell his farm and remove to Chelsea, Vermont, ten miles distant, where in company with another man he purchased another farm, paid his part of the purchase money, but his associate failing to pay the other part, the farm reverted at the end of the year to the seller and Thomas was reduced to poverty.
In September 1813, he removed his family to Compton, Canada East, and purchased another farm pleasantly situated at the headwaters of the Passumpsic River. Seven months later due to Indian concerns he removed to Hanover, New Hampshire.
Reference
A Short Account of the Descendants of William Haskell
by Ulysses G. Haskell
From the Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol XXXII, 1896
Also published in Haskell Journal 1-4, 1898
According to Ira J. Haskell, Isaac Smith and Mercy Haskell had one child. (Ira J. Haskell in "Chronicles of the Haskell Family", Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA, 1943.)
According to Ira J. Haskell, Nathaniel Haskell moved to Sandy Hills, NY, married twice and had at least three children, Dorothy, Polly, and Henry N. Haskell. (Ira J. Haskell in "Chronicles of the Haskell Family", Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA, 1943.)
Aretas is listed as a farmer and as a resident in Tunbridge, Orange county, VT, in the Federal Censuses of 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, and 1850. In the 1850 Census he is listed as age 67, with a wife (Anna Folsom, age 56, born in VT), 4 children, and 4 grandchildren.
According to the Tunbridge death certificate, Aretas died of typhus fever at age 74 years, 6 months, and 13 days.
Aretas and Anna Folsom were married by Aaron Buzzell, Minister.
Aretas and Betsey Moody were married by Nathaniel King, Preacher of the Gospel.
David Moody Haskell is buried in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio. The date of birth on the headstone is August 14, 1813.
Lorenzo Wright and his wife, Sarah (Haskell) Wright , had no children.
13237. Franklin Aretas Haskell
Franklin A. Haskell died June 3, 1864 of a Confederate bullet to his temple while leading a charge by the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Regiment near Cold Harbor, New Kent Co., Virginia. He is buried in Silver Lake Cemetery, Portage, Columbia Co., Wisconsin. Before his death he wrote, in letters preserved by his brother Harrison, personal accounts of battles of the Civil War. His account of the battle of Gettysburg is regarded by historians as a classic and has been published many times with commentary by noted historians. His life is treated in the book, "Haskell of Gettysburg", edited by Frank L. Byrne and Andrew T. Weaver, published by The Kent State University Press, 1989.
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The following paragraphs are taken from a book review published in Time Magazine, May 19, 1958THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG (169 pp.)
Frank A. Haskell - Edited by Bruce Catton - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50).From the Union lines, behind the stonewall on the crest of Cemetery Ridge, First Lieut. Frank A. Haskell looked down on the forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, imperfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridges and slope, through orchard and meadow, and cornfield, magnificent, grim, irresistible."
Magnificent, grim, irresistible - these were the gaunt men in grey on the third desperate day of battle near Gettysburg, charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over it; and the clicking of the iron axles as the guns were rolled up by hand a little further to the front, were quite all the sounds that could be heard."
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight - and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repelling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness at Appomattox) Catton. For all Haskell's unusual talent, The Battle of Gettysburg was his only literary work. Just eleven months after he wrote his story of the most famous charge in U.S. history, Frank Haskell, by then a colonel, was among the 40,000 men whom Ulysses S. Grant flung headlong against the unyielding Confederate lines at Cold Harbor. He was also among the 7,000 who died.
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U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers
Name: Frank A Haskell
Death Date: 3 Jun 1864
Death Place: Cold Harbor, Virginia
Enlistment State: Wisconsin
Rank: Colonel
Regiment: 36 Wis Vols
Box Number: 56
In 1860 Alma Haskell was single and living with her brother, Harvey, in Reedsburg, Sauk, Wisconsin (US Census).