STEPHEN K. MANNING -- 153rd and 96th INFANTRYDIED IN ALEXANDRIA BURIED IN MOOERS - In the late summer and early fallof 1862, over 60 men from the Mooers area enlisted in the 153rdInfantry.Stephen K. Manning enlisted on August 31, 1862, in Mooers, and musteredin to Company G, of the 153rd Infantry as a private to serve for 3 yearson October 18th, in Fonda, NY. He didn't even get a chance to serve for3 months.The 96th, recruited in Fulton, Montgomery,Saratoga, Clinton, Essex and Warren Counties, took the train toWashington the same day they were mustered in. They set up camp inAlexandria, VA, and commenced their duties as provost guard. By December22, 1862, Stephen was dead of typhoid due to the unsanitary conditionsin camp. He was one of the first who died and one of the 152 men of the96th who died of disease -- William Avery, died in October atPlattsburgh Barracks before they even left for Fonda; Ambrose Lucia diedin November in Alexandria; and Carlos Pike and Myers Holman also died inDecember there. When the 153rd came back to Alexandria from theirengagements further South, even more men died of cholera and typhoid incamp.Stephen, a farmer, was born in Russelltown, Quebec, just north ofBlackmun's Corners on the other side of the border. He was the son ofJohn Manning and Kesiah Latten, who were both born in Vermont. Hemarried Sally Ann Blackmun on September 9, 1847. She was the daughter ofJude Foster Blackmun and Polly Ann Morse. They had several childrenbefore he went off to war with a \$25 county bounty in his pocket.When he died, his family brought his body home and he was buried in theRiverside Cemetery in Mooers under a stone you can visit today. In June1863, Sally Ann got a Widow's pension for herself and one for a minorchild. Many of the family, including Sally Ann, later moved to Wisconsinand Minnesota to farm after the war.According to Jill Stephenson, the papers supporting the application forthe pension based on Stephen's service are presently being digitized byFold3.You can see some of Jill\'s Blackmun family historyat: [[http://nnyacgs.com/files/LUKE_SHERMAN_BLACKMUN.pdf]{.underline}](http://nnyacgs.com/files/LUKE_SHERMAN_BLACKMUN.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0yaaPPIeJWxyIa33RHuimwIxtxEaccJeP0Sxf1hogOmpJKL4sZa-ZFfvY)
