HENRY GOULD SAMPSON -- 16th and 121stINFANTRYA YEAR IN THE AMBUANCE CORPS - In 1850, Henry Gould Sampson was livingwith his parents, Jeremiah Sampson and Susannah Worden, in Hopkinton,NY, with his ten brothers and sisters. On September 5, 1862, Henryenlisted in the 16th Infantry Regiment in Plattsburgh and was musteredin on the same date. By the time he joined the Army, the men wererequired to serve for three years.He and the men with whom he enlisted were replacement troops for the 231casualties the regiment had sustained at Gaines' Mill on June 27th.Henry probably didn't meet up with the 16th until after Crampton's Gapand Antietam where they had 66 more casualties in early September. Hewas, however, at Fredericksburg in December where they served as picketsand had no casualties. For the winter of 1863-63, they encamped oppositeFredericksburg at Falmouth on the Rappahannock River.During the Chancellorsville Campaign in May 1863, another 154 casualtieswere received at Marye's Heights and Salem Church just south ofFredericksburg. The 16th's term of service was up in May, so the3-year men were transferred to the 121st Infantry. Henry fought withthe new regiment until April 1864 when he was detailed to the AmbulanceCorps before they engaged at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Heremained with the Ambulance Corps until the war ended and the regimentreturned to the Washington area. On June 25, 1865, he mustered out atHall's Hill, VA, on the south side of the Potomac, within sight of thecapitol.Henry returned to his wife, Harriett Crandall, who he had married in1859, and his son, Frederick. By 1867, the family was living inWisconsin and finally, they settled in Minnesota. Henry died in 1900 inSt. Paul, and Harriett received her pension for thirteen years beforeshe, too, died.
