THOMAS M. WILCOX -- 91st INFANTRY and 1st U. S. ARTILLERYNEVER SAW ACTION WITH THE 91st - Company C of the 91st Infantry wasrecruited in Redford and Albany. Thomas M. Wilcox was one of 4 men whoenlisted in Redford in September of 1861. Nine of his comrades died ofdisease or were killed in action and eight were severely wounded. Oneman died 5 months after he returned home in 1863.The 91st was also known as the Albany Regiment and was organized therein December 1861. They left Albany on January 9, 1862, determined toserve for 3 years. They only stayed in Washington for a short timebefore they embarked for Fort Pickens, in the western Florida Panhandlejust across the bay from Pensacola. From April to September 1862, theywere with the Department of the South and then transferred to theDepartment of the South.Thomas didn't get to Fort Pickens. He was in the hospital in Key West,FL. He caught measles in Albany on the way south and had typhoid at KeyWest on the regiment's way to Fort Pickens. He recovered and wasdischarged on December 23, 1862, to be in Battery L of the 1st U. S.Artillery. He was still in service in 1865, according to the SaranacTown Clerk's Record of Men Who Were in the Civil War.He received and Invalid's Pension in 1888, and in 1912 asked to beconsidered for a \$30-pension stating, that he was unable to performmanual labor by reason of being affected with rheumatism and nervous andgeneral debility, which were contracted in the service, and whichdisabilities incapacitate him from performing anything but the verylightest manual labor.Thomas died on June 13, 1919 and hisobituary was in the Little Falls Daily - Old Resident Passed AwayThomas M. Wilcox Died At Old Soldier\'s Home YesterdayHad Lived In County 48 Years - Veteran Of The Civil WarThomas M. Wilcox died yesterday at the Old Soldiers\' home at Ft.Snelling where he had lived since last fall. The body was brought tothis city today for burial.Mr. Wilcox was a native of Chesterfield, Essex county, NY, and was bornon June 7, 1841, to Norman Chancellor Wilcox and Samantha Goff. In 1861,he enlisted in the 91st New York Volunteer Infantry, serving 18 monthsand re-enlisted in the United States regular artillery and served threeyears. He then returned to his native state and lived there until hecame to Belle Prairie, Morrison County, in 1871. In 1875 Mr. Wilcoxvisited Texas, resided there for two years and then returned to his farmin this county.Miss Lydia Ann Signor, a sister of Lyman Signor of this city, became hiswife on December 31, 1865, in Dannemora, NY. Six children were born tothem, of whom four are living, three sons and one daughter. Thesurviving children are Gurdon of Brainerd, Myrtle of Knife River, Henry,who resides in northern Minnesota, and Mrs. Eugene Cota of Bemidji.The funeral will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Methodist church,with the local G. A. R. in charge.\"He was buried in Little Falls on June 15, 1919.
