Quaker Uncles in the Civil War

Yesterday (January 31st) I wrote about my Chase 2nd great-grand uncles. Today I want to look at a couple of my Quaker uncles, again they are really 2nd great-grand uncles.

Wait a minute! I thought Quakers did not believe in fighting in war. They didn't, but they also didn't believe in slavery and isn't this what the Civil War was all about. It created a problem for many young Quaker men whether they should volunteer to serve the Union.

Jordan P. Albertson, a son of Nathan and Phariby (Nicholson) Albertson, lived in Hardin County, Iowa. He had already gotten into trouble with the Quaker church there because he had "married contrary to discipline" when he married Tallitha Haworth 30 Jun 1860. He enlisted on 12 Sep 1861 as a private, age 22 and was mustered in on 1 Oct 1861 (the day after his son Clarence was born) in Company B, Iowa 11th Infantry Regiment. Jordan served for over 2 1/2 years until the battle of Atlanta on 22 Jul 1864, when he was declared missing. His wife filed for a pension on 6 Mar 1865 and the pension papers show that he had died on 22 Jul 1864. Later on, 12 Jan 1867, she filed for support benefits for a minor child.

Jordan's next older brother, Jesse B. Albertson, was married to Minerva Haworth on 31 Mar 1861. Almost a year after his brother had enlisted , Jesse enlisted in the same company on 5 Sep 1862. After about six months service, he received a disability discharge on 10 Mar 1863 at Lake Providence, Louisiana. I don't have information about what this was, but he died less than a year later, 4 Dec 1863, and was buried in Hardin County, Iowa.

So I am sad that neither of these two 2nd great-grand uncles survived to see the victory at the end of the War.