ALBERT HOAG -- 192nd INFANTRYWORKED ON THE RAILROAD IN ILLINOIS - At eighteen years old, Albert Hoag,who was born in Grand Isle, VT, enlisted in the 192nd Infantry inPlattsburgh on March 1, 1865. The !92nd Infantry was the last regimentthat recruited in Clinton County. The 192nd and 193rd were the lastwho mustered men from Clinton and Franklin Counties and the lastregiment, the 194th, recruited men only from central and western NewYork.The regiment organized in Elmira, NY, with Companies D through Hmustering in on March 28th. They were sent straight to the ShenandoahValley to collect arms, patrol and maintain order. They also helpedparole Confederate troops so they could go home.By August, the men were with the Department of West Virginia and finallymustered out on August 28th at Cumberland, WV.Albert came home and then moved to Cairo, IL, at the junction of theMissouri and Ohio Rivers. He worked for the railroad there and in 1888and became the third husband of a widow of a Civil War soldier,Victorine Jane Hughes, who died in 1918. After Victorine's death, heretired from the railroad and worked as a salesman for saloon supplies.Albert became ill and spent two years in the National Home for DisabledVolunteers in Danville, IL, almost 300 miles to the north. When he wasdischarged in 1922 with \$50 in his pocket, he lived in boarding housesfor the rest of his life. He died in 1929 and was buried in the MoundCity National Cemetery about ten miles north of Cairo on the Ohio River.
