ANDREW and ARNOLD GUYNUP – 60(th) INFANTRYSUNSTROKE AFFECTED THEIR WHOLE LIVES - The 60th Regiment was organizedat Ogdensburg in the fall of 1861. Andrew and Arnold Guynup, sons ofJohn Guynup and Lydia Ann Butler, were listed as Andrew A. Guinnuss andArnold W. Guinnuss, privates who promised to serve for 3 years.After mustering in Ogdensburg, they left for the war zone on November1st. Through the winter, they were stationed on guard along theBaltimore and Ohio Railroad. When General Banks' army retreated in theShenandoah Valley, it was ordered to Harper's Ferry in late May, andthen up the valley to Winchester.In the “History of the Sixtieth Regiment,” by its Chaplain Richard Eddy,it is noted that during June 1862 there were several cases of sunstroke,and it seems that the brothers were two of its victims.James P. Sochacki, whose ancestors included Arnold and Andrew sent usthis information: From depositions in Arnold's pension file (NationalArchives) Deposition from John Ingram of Ellensburg, (Lt. in Co. H,60(th) NYSV) - "On the 4th day of July 1862 at or near Cedar Creek inthe state of Virginia, Arnold W. Guynup was with several other soldiersdisabled by sunstroke; that the request was in line under orderslistening to an oration in honor of the day when the weather being veryhot and this place where they were on parade being surrounded by woods,the officer in command of the Regiment with several men , including saidArnold W. Guynup, were so affected by the heat that they fell to theearth like dead men; that said Arnold W. Guynup was sent to hospital andnever did duty in said service while deponent remained therein.Deposition from Abel Gogard (Col. in 60th Reg.) of Richville, St.Lawrence County "On the fourth day of July 1862 a part of said Regimentwas in camp near Winchester, Virginia, that while Co. "H" of saidRegiment was in line with others listening to an orator and othercommemoratives of the day, many of the men were overcome with the heatand fell to the ground; that among the men there sunstruck, was ArnoldGuynup. That he saw said Arnold W. Guynup soon after in the fieldhospital and heard the surgeon in charge say he would probably never beright again; that said Arnold was then insane in appearance and deponenthas no doubt was so in fact that that said sunstroke was received bysaid Arnold in the line of his duty.Andrew was discharged on January 5, 1863, from Portsmouth Grove MilitaryHospital in Rhode Island and returned to life in the Cadyville area. Hemarried Sarah M. Buck at age 40, but a few years later left his wife andchildren. On April 16, 1887, he started receiving an Invalid’s Pension.In 1893, a notice in the Plattsburgh Sentinel stated, “Andrew Guynup,who left his family some time ago, has not been heard from since. Heleaves a wife with six children to take care of”. He died at the StateHospital, in Ogdensburg on December 15, 1919. His body was returned toPlattsburgh, where he is buried in Riverside Cemetery with his wife, wholived until 1927. Sarah started receiving a Widow’s Pension on January2, 1920.Arnold was also discharged from Portsmouth Grove Hospital in RhodeIsland on January 29, 1863, and returned to the Saranac area and hisparents. He never married and was in and out of psychiatric institutionshis whole life, probably attributed to the sunstroke he received in thesummer of 1862. In September 17, 1864, he started receiving an Invalid’sPension. Several years of his life were spent at the Hudson River StateHospital for which Clinton County paid $235 a year for his treatment.Like his brother, Arnold also died in the State Hospital in Ogdensburgon May 17, 1913. He is buried near his parents in the CadyvilleCemetery.
