ALFRED WEED -- 93rd and 96th INFANTRYPLAGUED BY ILL HEALTH - Alfred Weed, a thirty-five-year old lawyer from Ticonderoga, raised a company of men from the local area in November and December 1861. Captain Weed's Company G became part of the 96th NY Infantry, and one of the privates in his regiment was his half-brother, Alexander. Alfred's wife, Louisa Treadway, and their son, died before he left for war.The regiment left for Washington the following March and were sent to the Virginia Peninsula by ship to participate in the Siege of Yorktown in April. However, records show he was missing from the regiment in April and, by the end of June 1862, just before the Battle of White Oak Swamp, he resigned, compelled to do so by "severe sickness".By January 1864, Alfred had recovered sufficiently to enlist as a private in the 93rd Infantry in Plattsburgh.To start their year, the 93rd was at the Battle of The Wilderness followed by battle after battle until December -- Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the Boydton Plank Road to name a few. During those months, the regiment sustained almost five hundred casualties.The 93rd remained in the trenches around Petersburg for the winter, and Alfred was discharged for disability on February 14, 1865, on the outskirts of the city.He died three years after his return to Ticonderoga and was buried with his wife and child in the Street Road Cemetery. Alexander resigned from the regiment after one year's service as a drummer, worked in another brother's pharmacy business and died in 1910.
