ALFRED L. ALLEN -- 60th INFANTRY and26TH CAVALRYIN THE 60TH INFANTRY AND 26TH CAVALRY - On September 21, 1861, therecruiter enlisted Alfred L. Allen and 18 other men in Mooers. OnOctober 30th, they were mustered into Company H of the 60th Infantry inOgdensburg to serve for 3 years. Company H was enlisted in Champlain,Mooers, Ellenburg, Altona, Chazy, Saranac and Lisbon. The clerk recordedhim as Aller instead of Allen. Two of the men who enlisted with Alfreddied in the service, both of typhoid fever.The 60th left Ogdensburg in early November 1861 and went to Washingtonto be assigned to the Army of the Potomac to serve between there andBaltimore. From March 1862, they were in the Middle Division under General Dix inthe Railroad Brigade, at Baltimore and Relay House, MD. Starting inJune, the regiment was in Sigel's Division in the Army of the Shenandoahand then were transferred to the Army of Virginia. Alfred stayed with the regiment through General Pope's Campaign and allthe way through their engagement at Antietam under Colonel Goodrich.After Antietam, he was discharged for disability on November 14, 1862,from Headquarters in New York Harbor.\On January 27, 1865, Alfred enlisted again in Malone, NY. He joined the26th or 1st Frontier Cavalry, the last New York cavalry regiment formed.The 26th had five companies. Alfred was in Captain Newton H. Davis'Company I which was stationed at Ogdensburg. After 5 months of guardingthe northern frontier, the regiment was disbanded. His company wasmustered out on July 5, 1865. Alfred and his wife, Ellen, lived for a while in Vermont, where heapplied for a pension in 1884. When he died in 1895, Ellen startedreceiving a Widow's Pension while she was living in New York.
