ALOY DAVIS -- 60th INFANTRYMARCHED HUNDREDS OF MILES - The 60th Infantry began recruiting inOctober 1861 and was organized in Ogdensburg which was a hub for severalrailroads. One man who was mustered in on October 30, 1863, was AloyDavis, who was recruited for Captain James Ransoms Company H inChamplain. The company was made up of men from Mooers, Ellenburgh,Altona, Chazy, Saranac and Lisbon as well as Champlain.The regiment left by train for Washington on November 4th and served inGeneral Dix's Railroad Brigade before it was sent to Harper's Ferry inlate May of 1862. Their major battle for the year was at Antietam wherethey had 22 casualties.In 1863, they fought at Chancellorsville in May, at Gettysburg in Julyand lost almost 140 men to casualty. At the end of November, theyembarked on the Chattanooga and Rossville Campaign in Tennessee. Whilethey were in winter quarters, Aloy re-enlisted at Wauhatchie, TN, on theTennessee/Georgia border.In 1864, the 60th went on the 250-mile Atlanta Campaign with GenealSherman suffering 65 casualties and still under Sherman's command wenton the March to the Sea. They arrived in Savannah in late Decemberhaving one man killed in action and 5 men wounded.The Campaign of the Carolinas lasted from January 26th from Savannah andended on April 26th with the men fighting their way to the Bennett Housein North Carolina -- a distance of 325 miles in three months. Theyreturned to Alexandria, VA, where Aloy was mustered out on July 17,1865.Aloy returned to Champlain and in later life moved to Missouri where hestarted receiving his Invalids Pension in 1882 under the name AlbyDavis.
