ASA A. STREETER -- 142nd INFANTRYFARMER FROM HORICON GOES TO WAR - The first of Asa A. Streeter'sStreeter ancestors to come to North America and settled in Massachusettsin the 1630s. After the Revolution, his grandfather, Nathaniel, settledin Warren County in the early 1800s. Asa was born in Horicon in 1830 andwas put on the Civil War Draft Register in 1863. By September 1, 1864,he had enlisted in Plattsburgh in the 142nd Infantry to serve for oneyear.When Asa completed his basic training, he joined his regiment from therecruiting depot on October 14th. He was one of a group of men whowere needed by the 142nd after suffering over 200 casualties sinceMay. His first battle was at Darbytown Road on October 27th and thebattle produced 103 casualties many of whom were the new recruits justsent to the regiment.At the end of December, they engaged in their first assault on FortFisher in North Carolina. The second assault on the fort brought a Unionvictory and they spent the rest of the war in that state. The 142ndfinally joined the Campaign of the Carolinas under General Sherman inMarch 1865. They mustered out on June 7, 1865, at Raleigh.Asa returned to Warren County, his farm. his wife, Freelove Smith, andtheir five children. They had six more children by the time he died in1900.The Ticonderoga Sentinel of January 25, 1900, carried Asa's obituary --Asa Streeter, aged 60 years, died at his home in Horicon on January20th. He leaves two sons, Elmer and Porter, and four daughters, Mrs.Albert Durkee, Mrs. Wesley Rising, and the Misses Roxey and GertrudeStreeter. His wife, the former Freelove Smith, died in 1891, and he wasburied beside her.
