HEMAN LAMB STOUGHTON -- 175thINFANTRYFARMED IN SOUTH PLATTSBURGH AFTER THE WAR - Heman Lamb Stoughton'spaternal and maternal ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. When itcame time for him to join the military, he chose the 175th Infantry inSeptember 1864, for which he received a town bounty of \$800. Heman wasthe son of Francis Stoughton and Joanna Hazen who came from Vermont tofarm in Beekmantown with their family.The 175th had just returned from eighteen months in Louisiana wherethey had 53 casualties at the Siege of Port Hudson before they went onthe Red River Campaign. In the summer of 1864, they were ordered back tothe Shenandoah Valley to get the last of the Confederates out of thearea. Heman arrived in time for the third battle, Cedar Creek, beforethey went into winter quarters in Savannah, GA.The regiment sailed up to Wilmington, NC, to join the X Corps underGeneral Alfred Terry and participated in in the surrender of Johnston toSherman on April 26, 1865 -- the Second Surrender. Heman returned toSavannah and was mustered out on June 30th as a corporal.Heman returned to Plattsburgh and his wife, Martha Smith, and son Byron.The couple had a daughter, Minnie, who died when she was only 20 and wasburied in the South Plattsburgh Cemetery in 1887. Her mother joined herthere in 1899 and was buried with her. His widowed mother died in 1902and went back to Grand Isle to be buried. Her husband died in 1870 inIowa. Heman died in 1910 and was also buried in South Plattsburgh.
