JUNE DAILEY -- 96th INFANTRYDIED AFTER 2 MONTHS IN THE FIELD - June Dailey's parents. Zimri Dailyand Lucy Hackett, moved to Ellenburg from East Highgate, VT, to farm inthe 1850s. He was born in Vermont in 1846, which made him only 16 yearsold when he enlisted in the 96th Infantry in Ellenburg in October of1861. On his Muster Roll Abstract, he is recorded as Jume Daily, but onthe regiment's Muster Roll, he is enlisted as June Daily, an 18-year-olddrummer in Captain Addis E. Woodhull's Company D.Although he enlisted in October 1861, the company didn't leavePlattsburgh until March 11, 1862. Before he even left Plattsburgh, hewas transferred to Captain Darius Parsons Company B. On April 17th,the regiment was at the Siege of Yorktown with the Army of the Potomacwith about 60,000 other soldiers under General George McLellan. Lincolnvisited General McLellan twice while he was in the vicinity of Yorktown.George became ill while the 96th was at Yorktown on the James Riverand was left in hospital at Fort Scott on Harrison's Landing about 50miles upstream while the regiment moved on up the Virginia Peninsula. Hedied of disease there on June 8, 1862. No record of his burial can befound.In 1872, June's mother applied for and received a pension based on hisservice. His father, Zimri Dailey, died in 1886 and was buried in theEllenburg Corners Cemetery and his mother, Lucy Hackett, died in 1911.
