16th infantryTURNER, JOHN HENRY --- Age, 29 yrs. Enlisted, Aug. 30, 1862, atPlattsburgh; mustered in as private, Co. C, same date, to serve 3 yrs;transferred, May 11, 1863, to 121st Infantry; also borne as Tretton.*TC SA \~* *res. Saranac; b. Jan. 3, 1832, Plattsburgh; W; M; p.Stephen Turner and Hannah Brown; occ. sawyer; in the Battles ofAntietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; transferred to 121st NYInfantry; Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, The Wilderness, 1864,Chapin's Farm, Chapin's Farm, Fort Fisher, Cold Harbor, Petersburg,Welden Railroad, Fort Lincoln, July 24, 1864; Winchester, Fisher's Millsand Cedar Run; still living; PO Dannemora.*121st infantryTURNER, JOHN HENRY --- Private, Co. C, 16th Infantry; transferredto Co. A, this regiment, May 11, 1863; mustered out with company, June25, 1865, near Hall's Hill, VA.FROM CRAMPTON'S GAP TO APPOMATTOX - On September 13, 1862, GeneralLee\'s order directing the movements of his army came into the hands ofGeneral McClellan. McClellan ordered his army to advance without waitingfor the trains - the I and IX Corps to Turner\'s Pass, and the VI Corpsincluding John Turner's 16th Infantry to Crampton\'s Pass a few milesto the south. The I and IX Corps fought the battle of Turner\'s Passfrom 2 pm until dark on September 14th and slept on their arms on thesummit of South Mountain.John, with the VI Corps, fought his first battle at Crampton\'s Pass inMaryland starting at 3 pm on the same day. The 16th held a prominentplace in the action, which was one of the most fierce during its term ofservice, and the only one in which its valor was rewarded by a victorywhich enabled it tom sleep on the field of battle. The Rebels atCrampton\'s Pass were all driven down the west side of the mountain,leaving their dead and wounded in the regiment's hands. Three dayslater, John was at Antietam.At the end of December, the 16th fought at Fredericksburg and theymade their winter quarters at Falmouth on the north side of theRappahannock River. On May 3rd and 4th 1863, the regiment wasengaged at Marye's Heights and Salem Church on the southern outskirts ofFredericksburg.The 16th came to the end of its 2-year term in May and the new 3-yearmen were transferred in the field to the 121st Infantry. During thenext two years, John was in some of the major battles of the war --Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Cold Harbor and Cedar Creek, among others,before he was with General Grant on the Appomattox Campaign. He wasmustered out in June 1865.He returned home to his wife, Sarah Stackpole, his children and hisparents and stayed in the Saranac area for many years. Toward the end ofhis life, he became an Adirondack guide and followed that professionuntil a couple of years before he died in 1905.
