U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Jason F Haskell
Residence: Garland, Maine
Age at enlistment: 19
Enlistment Date: 22 Dec 1863
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Maine
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Maine 2nd Cavalry Regiment on 22 Dec 1863.
Mustered out on 01 Jun 1865.
Birth Date: abt 1844
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine
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Civil War Pension File
Invalid pension application # 73997, cert # 273886
Widow pension application # 1142450, cert # 876809
Enlisted October 26, 1863, age 19, 5' 11", light complexion, dark eyes, browm hair
Company I. 2nd Maine Infantry
Company H. 22nd Maine Infantry
Discharged June 1, 1865 for chronic diarhea.
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Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 10, No. 4, December 2001Yankees Going West
By Edward H. HaskellJason Haskell was in one of the almost unseaworthy ships carrying Union soldiers, including the 22nd Maine Infantry, from the Carolina coast to Louisiana in December of 1862. The ships sailed by New Orleans, with bands playing, on or about Christmas Day and went into winter camp at Baton Roug
The Union's plan to conquer the South was to slice it like a pie, and the Mississippi River was the first slice. New Orleans had fallen easily the year before, and Union troops had taken Baton Rouge, but the Confederates still controlled the river between them. They had since fallen back to a sleepy little town on the river called Port Hudson and fortified it.
Port Hudson lay on high bluffs on a bend in the Mississippi. Cannon controlled the river and a trench the land side. Trees had been chopped down and allowed to fall like match sticks. They were now covered with heavy vines. To take Port Hudson would prove a hard and bloody ordeal for the Union. An exceptionally cold winter in Louisiana made life even more difficult for these Union troops. The cold, exposure, poor diet, and a variety of diseases took their toll. As with almost every regiment on both sides, the greater loss of life was not from the foe's rifle and cannon, but from disease.
Most of the New England regiments, including the 22nd, were nine month regiments, and their days of service were rapidly coming to an end. Action had to be taken soon or the entire campaign would be a loss.
The army in Baton Rouge was to march up to Port Hudson and decoy Confederate troops so the Navy could run a small fleet of ships under the guns of Port Hudson. Anxious troops waiting for their first taste of battle were awakened by the sound of cannon and glare of rockets. The Admiral had decided to pass under Port Hudson without their aid. The disgruntled troops marched back to Baton Rouge. In its next involvement the 22nd marched from Baton Rouge to Brashear, sailed up Grand Lake to land behind the Confederate troops, with orders to hold them in a narrow neck of land along the Bayou Teche, thus forcing their surrender.
Landing a division some 10,000 men strong, plus artillery, horses and wagons, proved difficult.
By late afternoon, the zz-, one of the first regiments to land, was ordered to destroy Porter's bridge, which they burned and returned to camp. Night had fallen and an exhausted Union army tried to rest in a field of young cane. At the first rays of the sun, they were called into position and without coffee, much less warm food or sleep, were marched along the road towards the woods. In the ensuing battle the enemy slipped away.Jason told a story about spearing a pig while on a march. According to the story, he and his mess mates prepared the pig over their fire only to have it confiscated by their officers. Later that night, they raided the officer's mess and took back their pig. This may well have happened.
On July 4th 1863 Vicksburg (Mississippi) fell to Union forces, and on July 9th at nine in the morning at least one defiant Confederate Army surrendered.
Even though Jason wrote in his pension application that he was suffering from a variety of problems including "disease of stomach, liver, spleen ... rheumatism", he enlisted in the 2nd Maine Cavalry in December 1863 to finish the "work" in Louisiana. Of the nine Garland men who enlisted with the regiment, only three would be mustered out. Five would die of disease during the Fall and Winter of 1864, among them Bennet, Captain Isaac and Charles, all sons of Bildad Haskell. Jason was sent to New Orleans, then home to Maine in October 1864 for two months, suffering from scurvy and constant diarrhea. In March 1865 he was admitted to Cony Army Hospital, Portland, and discharged home to Garland on June 1st, 1865.
He returned to the work he had left three years earlier, as a farmhand for Thomas Oliver, a neighbor. Mr. Oliver wrote in a pension affidavit that Jason was not "worth more than half pay". The years after the war were difficult for New England and, like many young New Englanders, Jason and Frederick had to leave. They did so in 1868, probably in the Spring, and arrived in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
The most important thing that would happen to Jason in Sturgeon Bay was his marriage to Zedora Persons, daughter of Levi and Betsey (Moore) Persons. Jason and Zedora ("Dora") were married on January 30th, 1869, by the Rev. Jess D. Cole. Zedora gave birth to her first son, George, in Fort Atkinson on November 22, 1869.
The circumstances of their meeting is unclear. Levi Persons, Zedora's father, took his family from Vermont to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in 1858 and moved to Sturgeon Bay about the time the Haskells arrived. Levi was a carpenter and probably worked with the two brothers. There seemed to have been a deep and abiding friendship between Levi and the Haskells.
In the Spring of 1870 the entire Persons-Haskell clan left Wisconsin and moved to Waveland Township in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Levi started with 10 acres. In 1885 Dora Haskell owned 80 acres, and the 1880 Iowa census suggests that Jason and Levi may have lived on the same farm.
Two tragedies were to mar the Iowa years: the death of Frederick Persons, age 30, in 1873, and the death of Herbert, Jason and Zedora's infant son in 1877.
The two families left Iowa by train in 1883 for Dakota. Levi was 61 years old, and Jason and Dora had five children with them. George, the oldest, was not quite 13 and Etta, the youngest, not quite 3 years old. From Ashton Station they took wagons some twenty miles across nearly untouched prairie and homesteaded land northwest of Conde in Spink County, Dakota.
Dakota remained home for Jason and Zedora. Etta would die in a school accident in 1891, and seven children would grow to adulthood. In 1892 the family would leave the farm in Beotia Township to move into Conde. Jason died May 25th 1919; Zedora after a train trip to Iowa on October 14th, 1921. They are buried in the Conde, South Dakota, Cemetery.
When son George N. (1869·1945) moved to California in 1915, he completed the crossing of the continent that began with William in 1635.
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Clair Haskell
Birth Date: 16 Aug 1894
Death Date: 8 Aug 1981
SSN: 556365531
Enlistment Date 1: 3 Sep 1918
Release Date 1: 16 Jan 1919
Find-a-Grave
Update provided by Jeffry BurdenGeorge, the son of E. K. and Amelia Handy, moved with them from New York to Iowa when he was 13. After attending the University of Iowa, he enlisted from Johnson County as 1st Sergeant of Company "F", 22nd Iowa Infantry on 7 August 1862. He also served for a time as the Company's orderly sergeant, until promoted 2nd Lieutenant on 8 January 1863, and then 1st Lt. on 28 March 1864.
He gave notable service in the battles fought in by the 22nd Iowa in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, including at Winchester on 19 September 1864: "[He was] named for distinguished gallantry in this battle. He was serving on the brigade staff [under Col. Edward Molineux], rode his horse in the midst of the carnage, and rallied the men to stand firmly to their colors." (Pryce, "Vanishing Footprints: The Twenty-Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War"(Burden, ed.), 2008). He was badly wounded in that battle, but stayed with the Regiment until it was mustered out of service in Savannah on 25 July 1865.
He was also know in the regiment for his humor, once describing his portion of the regiment's beef ration as "fried shoe-uppers - without any horseradish on it." A fellow officer described Handy's own facial hair as "a cute little baseball contraption on his upper lip -- nine on a side." (Pryce).
In 1865, after returning from the War George entered Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1868. That year he also married Hannah Augusta Haskell of Maine. They eventually had two children, Una and Georgia. After practicing in Boston, St. Louis and Atlanta, George moved with his family in 1880 to Oakland, California. He bought a 450-acre ranch near Los Gatos in 1883, which he named "Glen Una" after his daughter. There he grew French prunes, cherries, pears and grapes. Just before he died, he gave the land to Una and her husband. After her husband's death a few years later, Una continued to run the ranch, which became a favorite respite-place for writer Ambrose Bierce.
George was Companion #06137 in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), the first post-Civil War veterans' organization, founded by and for men who served as commissioned officer
The Bangor Daily News
August 1, 1950Dexter - July 31 - Harold L. Haskell, 70. of this town died suddently this noon at the home of bArchibald Packard in Corinna where he had resided for the past few years.
He was born March 5, 1880, in South Lincoln, son of Samnuel and Georgianna Delano Haskell.
He is survived by threeisters, Mrs. Harry Bartlett of Harmony, and Mrs. Frank Gordon and Nary Thibodeau, both of California; a brother, Ralph of Milo; four nephews and several cousins.
Obituary
Aoril 6, 1931George W. Haskell, age 72, former member of the common council and for nearly 25 years a wholesale cream dealer and grocer, died yesterday morning at 11 :45 at the home, 522 Main street, of heart trouble after four weeks' illness.
Mr. Haskell was born in Garland, Me., and would have been 73 next June 3. He went to Lincoln, Me., where he resided for more than 10 years and married Hester Spencer of that city. They had one son, Merle, who died in Haverhill 27 years ago. While a resident of Lincoln, Mr. Haskell became affiliated with the Horab Lodge of Masons and served as its master. He was also a member of Burtt Lodge, A.O.U.W.
Mr. Haskell came to Haverhill in 1897 and became interested in the cream and grocery business and for many years was affiliated in the former with Elmer E. Roberts under the name of Haskell and Roberts. He was first located at the corner of Sixth avenue and Cedar streets and later moved to Eleventh avenue and Main street. Mr. Haskell after several years in business sold the cream interest to W. B. Chadwick and the grocery store to Donald J. Atwood. In 1904, Mr. Haskell was elected a member of the common council from Ward 6 and served one term He retired from business in 1920.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Hester Haskell, Mr. Haskell left a sister, Mrs. Edward S. Moore, Hyde Park; two brothers, S, B. and J., F. Haskell, both of Garland, ME., and several nieces and nephews.