ALLEN WILSON - 16th and 60th INFANTRY and 3rd PROVISIONAL CAVALRYGUN CARRIAGE RAN OVER HIM - On September 21, 1861, an 18-year-old teamster enlisted in the 60th Infantry in Sciota. His name was Allen Wilson, the son of Allen Wilson and Irena Flint, born in Chazy IN 1842. At the end of October, he was mustered into Company H, expecting to serve for 3 years. They left for Washington on November 4th, and were stationed in the vicinity during the winter, and were in Gen. Dix\'s Railroad Brigade in the spring of 1862. In May, they were engaged at Harper's Ferry and joined General Pope's Campaign in Virginia with a stop at Antietam on September 17, 1862, where they lost 8 men and had 22 wounded. Shortly after Antietam, on November 5, 1862, Allen was discharged for disability.In the spring of the next year, he enlisted in the newly-formed 16th Infantry in Plattsburgh, personally recruited by Colonel Spencer H. Olmstead, commander of the regiment. On April 8, 1863, he was mustered into Company A, Captain Mooney's company. Over 100 men from the Plattsburgh area enlisted in the regiment that year. Companies A, B, C and D left the State June 19, 1863; and took part in the Pennsylvania Campaign in June and July 1863. During the rest of 1863, they had 3 engagements. In 1864, they had 26 engagements, all in Virginia. In March 1865, Allen\'s Muster Roll Abstract says he was "Absent Without Leave" which was later corrected to "Prisoner of War". He was one of 2 men in the 16th who were taken prisoner in the last month of the war.While he was a prisoner, he was transferred to the 3rd Provisional Cavalry on paper when the 13th and the 16th Cavalries were consolidated and received the new designation.He came home and married Lorraine Adelaide, with whom he had 3 children. He then married Genevieve Scott, or Jennie as she was known. They stayed in New York until after 1900 and then moved to Vermont and continued to farm.During the war, Allen was run over by a gun carriage and received abdominal injuries including a severe irreducible hernia. He also suffered from arteriosclerosis which was the primary cause of his death. He died on December 5, 1911, in Washington, VT, at 69 years, 6 months and 29 days. He is buried in the Maple Hill Cemetery there, and his wife joined him there in 1922.
