CORNELIUS V. JOCKO -- 22nd INFANTRY and 2nd VT INFANTRYFOUGHT FOR NEW YORK AND VERMONT - Cornelius V. Jocko and his twinsister, Cornelia, were born in Waterbury, VT, in 1831. Shortly aftertheir birth, their mother died and his father, James Jockow, remarried.Cornelius moved to Keeseville and enlisted in the 22nd Infantry there inMay 1861 to serve for two years.He was mustered into Captain Oliver Peabody's Company C on June 6th inTroy, NY. Two weeks later, they moved to Albany and left from there togo to Washington on June 28th. The regiment spent the winter on thesouth bank of the Potomac and while they were there, he was notified hisstepmother died in December 1861. In April 1862, at Falmouth, VA, theyhad their first casualties - 10 men captured by the enemy.In July of 1862, they were part of the Northern Virgina Campaign underGeneral Pope and had 50 men killed at the end of August at Groveton andBull Run. In addition, they had 60 men captured. The first week ofSeptember was spent in camp at Upton\'s Hill after their return to theWashington area and before they embarked on the Maryland Campaign. Inthe advance on South Mountain on September 14th they sustained 30 morecasualties and 30 more, three days later at Antietam.About the middle of November, the command arrived at Falmouth andparticipated in the Battle of Fredericksburg in December, beingstationed on the extreme left of the army. It then returned to camp atFalmouth a few miles upstream. In the spring they joined the ill-fatedMud March under General Burnside and in April were in the field againfor the Chancellorsville Campaign. The regiment was mustered out atAlbany, June 19, 1863.Cornelius returned to his hometown of Waterbury, VT, and enlisted in the2nd Vermont Infantry as a substitute for A. P. Foster of Waterbury onJuly 28, 1863. The regiment had just received heavy casualties atGettysburg on July 4. He was only in one battle with the 2nd Vermontbefore he found himself at The Wilderness on May 5, 1864, where he waswounded. Cornelius died on May 16th of wounds received in the battle.
