ADAM, ELI and JOHN McDOUGAL -- 38thINFANTRY and 2nd VETERAN CAVALRYTHREE BROTHERS ENLISTED -- TWO RETURNED - John McDougall enlisted in the38th Infantry in East New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. He spenthis two years with the regiment in some of the heaviest fighting of thewar. The regiment suffered 482 casualties. In First Bull Run, the 38thsuffered 128 casualties. In the fighting on the Peninsula, they had morethan 150 more casualties. Later that year they had an additional 170casualties in battles such as Second Bull Run and Fredericksburg. Beforehe mustered out in June 1863, John lost 37 more comrades atChancellorsville.When he enlisted again in 1863, it was in Plattsburgh with two of hisbrothers, Eli and Adam. They were assigned to Company E of the 2ndVeteran Cavalry and went to Louisiana to take part in the Red RiverCampaign. Eli became ill and died of yellow fever at Morganza, LA, onthe Mississippi.John was mustered out first, on March 24, 1865, in New Orleans. Adammustered out in Talladega, AL, in August 1865. John died in Whittier,CA, in 1924 at 85 years of age. Adam also moved to California. He diedin 1899 after having become a minister.
