DARIUS, EDWIN and GEORGE McFADDEN -- 118th INFANTRYTWO OF THE THREE COUSINS CAME HOME - On August 6, 1862, three cousinsenlisted in the 118th Infantry. They were the grandsons of GeorgeMcFadden of Cootehill in County Cavan, Ireland. George had come to theUnited States with his parents and siblings and by early 1800s hadremoved from Washington County to Beekmantown to farm.The two brothers, Darius (23) and Edwin (26) with cousin George (19)were all mustered into Company B on August 29th and left forWashington by boat two days later in Captain Levi Dominy's company.They stayed in Washington until April of 1863, when they were put on aflotilla of transports and taken to Fortress Monroe on the southeasternshore of the Virginia Peninsula with Darius as a corporal. Afterwintering near Portsmouth and Newport News, they fought at Ballyhack inMarch 1864 and Smithfield in April. They sailed up the James River andthe regiment began operations between Petersburg and Richmond.George became ill sometime during the summer of 1864 and died of chronicdiarrhea at the Finley Hospital in Washington on September 15th. Theothers carried on, but Edwin became weaker and was discharged fordisability in May 1865, after several hospitalizations. Dariusmaintained his health and mustered out on June 13, 1865, with hiscompany.Darius stayed in Clinton County until the late 1870s, then he and hissecond wife and his children moved to Minnesota. He had been a greatsufferer from a combination of diseases in later life and found relieffrom pain by the use of morphine. In 1897, he left a widow and threechildren -- two from his first wife and one from his second. He wasburied in the Oakwood Cemetery in 1887, a daughter in 1888 and his wifein 1889.Edwin stayed in Clinton County and died in 1911 as a widower. He and hiswife are buried in the West Chazy Rural Cemetery.
