CHARLES and CLEMENT MINER -- 118th INFANTRYCAN'T WIN THE WAR ON GERMS - In July 1862, two men named Miner wererecruited by Captain Levi Dominy in Chazy for his Company B of the118th Infantry. Clement enlisted on the 22nd and Charles four dayslater. They were mustered in in Plattsburgh a couple of days before theyleft for Washington. Clement was promoted to corporal on August 29th.On the way to the capital the 118th were detailed to guard the Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad tracks and bridges near Baltimore. After a couple ofmonths, they arrived in Washington to be part of its defenses and, byApril 1863, they were in the field at the Siege of Suffolk.By June, Charles was ill and was sent to hospital. He ended up in the U.S. Hospital at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx where he died of typhoid feveron October 1st. He was buried in the Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklynabout 20 miles to the south.Clement was with the regiment for another year before he succumbed toillness while they were in the field before Petersburg. He was taken tohospital at Fortress Monroe, VA, in the fall of 1864 and remainedhospitalized until July 1865.After the war, Clement moved to Allegan, in southwest Michigan on theKalamazoo River, where according to the 1870 Census, he was living withhis wife, Caroline Hurd, and working in a furniture store. Three yearslater, he started receiving his Invalids Pension. In 1880 he wassupporting his family by working in a furniture factory. Four yearslater, he died and was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Allegan.Caroline died in 1896 and was buried with him.
