ALLEN and FREDERICK DARRAH -- 2nd VOLUNTEER CAVALRYONE COUSIN CAME HOME - Two Darrah men were in the 2nd Veteran Cavalry.Both were descended of Thomas Darrah from Londonderry in NorthernIreland who settled in Litchfield, in southern New Hampshire, over ahundred and fifty years before. Their families took different pathsnorthward from Litchfield until they settled in the Plattsburgh area inthe Clinton County area in the early to mid-1800s.Allen mustered into Company H in September 1863 in Saratoga to serve for3 years. After the regiment's arrival in Washington by detachmentsthrough the next few months, they were sent to Louisiana in March 1864to serve with the Department of the Gulf.A year after Allen's enlistment, Frederick, who had deserted from the14th Infantry three years before, was recruited to be in the sameregiment and was sent to Louisiana and ended up being mustered into thesame company. For his enlistment, he received a bounty of \$800 from thetown. At the time, the regiment was patrolling back and forth across theriver -- sometimes in Mississippi and at other times in Louisiana.Frederick almost immediately became ill and when the regiment moved on,they left him behind in their camp at Morganza, LA. He died of chronicdiarrhea there on January 25, 1865.Allen soldiered on and was mustered out at Talladega, AL, on November 8,1865. He returned home, moved to Vermont and married twice. He died in1910 and was buried in Rochester, VT. There is no record of Frederick'sgrave site.
