SOLOMON PASSENAN (STONE) -- 60th INFANTRYUSED AN ALIAS TO ENLIST - Solomon Passenan was on of 79 privates whowere recruited in Champlain for Captain James Ransom's Company H of the60th Infantry. When he enlisted on September 21, 1861, he said he wasborn in Troy, NY, but was living in Washington, DC.The regiment mustered in Ogdensburg on October 30th and left forBaltimore, MD, by train on November 4th. They were attached to GeneralDix's Railroad Division for duty between Baltimore and the capital.Solomon was only with the regiment until December 10th when he wasdischarged.In 1893, Solomon applied for an Invalid's Pension claiming that he wasreally Solomon Stone who had been using the alias Solomon Passenan whenhe enlisted thirty-two years earlier. The pension, however, was notgranted. It was probably because he had been in the 60th for only 2months and 19 days, not the required 90 days to receive a pension.
