EDWARD DUKETT -- 60th INFANTRYSAWYER SOLDIER OF THE 60th - Edward Dukett, as he was known in themilitary, joined Co. H, 60th Infantry in Elsinore, a small community onthe Saranac River, a little west of Cadyville, on what is now Rte. 3. The 60th Infantry was organized in Ogdensburg on October 25, 1861 andreceived its numerical designation on October 30th. It recruited Co. Hin the Towns of Champlain, Mooers, Ellenburg, Altona, Chazy, Saranac andLisbon. Elsinore was a hamlet in the Town of Saranac, so Edward had lotsof local men to go with him - 6 from Elsinore signed up on September 21,1861. The 60th, also known as the 1st St. Lawrence Regiment, left forWashington on November 4, and encamped for the winter there. In the spring, it was part of General Dix's Railroad Brigade, and laterthat spring, part of the Army of the Shenandoah. After that it becamepart of General Pope's Virginia Campaign. The final battle that Edwardwas in was Antietam, where Col. Goodrich, one of the founding officersof the regiment, who was commanding the brigade, was killed.The regiment lost 22, killed, wounded and missing in that encounter.According to the Special Schedule of Surviving Soldiers, Sailors andMarines and Widows, Etc. for the Town of Saranac, it turned out Edwardwas in the service 1 year 3 months and 24 days. He was wounded in theleft leg at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. Within twoweeks of his discharge for disability on March 23, 1863, at Frederick,MD, he filed for an invalid pension. Edward Ducat left his job as a sawyer, wife, Adelia, and his children,Nelson, Rosilla and Joseph in 1861, when the recruiter came to town, andgot back in 1863. In the 1870 Census, he is again working as a sawyer inSaranac despite his leg injury. In 1880, he is living on a farm inSaranac with his extended family that included his daughter, Rosilla,her husband Joseph Leno. Edward died in 1894 and his wife received a pension based on hisservice.
