Rush Civil War Monument

Jacob Stull Galentine, born in Rush in 1835 to John and Isabella Stull Galentine, enlisted in the New York 136th Volunteers at age 28 and later appeared in an 1888 photograph taken at the New York 126th monument dedication at Gettysburg Battlefield. Charles D. Lozier, born in New York City in February 1843, served with Company F of the New York Engineers; he became the last surviving Civil War veteran in Rush and the last surviving member of the Lewis Gates Post, Grand Army of the Republic, in Honeoye Falls. Brothers James and George Ward, sons of Joseph Ward and Mary Ginn Ward, were born in Yorkshire, England, in 1840 and 1842, and came to the United States with their family in 1846; George served with the 26th New York and died in service in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 2nd, 1864, while James served with the 168th New York Volunteers and lived in Rush until his death in 1925. Rush Civil War veterans also included Francis Roderick, Benjamin Kinsey, James Eastwood, William Archibald, George K. Knight, Samuel J. Roderick, Christian Ellwanger, Myron Bell, Michael Fach, William H. Roderick, Philip Lapp, Robert Bell, Henry H. Ruland, William Lapp, George M. Feary, Christian Brandt, William Ryan, Philip Burger, John Latting, Thomas Feary, Charles Schmidt, H. W. Burlingame, Benjamin Lewis, Florendine Feasel, Jacob Schneider, Dudley Lewis, James Callen, John Smaley, George Lichard, Edward Casey, John A. Smith, William Lipp, James G. Clapp, Jacob Geibig, Alonzo Storry, George H. Clark, John Geibig, Henry Streamer, William Cleggitt, Peter Geibig, John R. Lyday, Jacob H. Stull, Jr., George W. Clickner, Granville M. Gilbert, Robert Lyday, Robert Taft, Albert E. Lyke, John Clickner, John A. Gilbert, George Terry, Harry Mack, Samuel P. Gilbert, Joseph Clickner, Jason Townsend, Thomas J. Clickner, Henry Golden, John Maloney, Horace Martin, Anthony Ward, Leonard C. Colt, Silas Goyer, Charles Cone, Addison Greene, Rice E. Martin, Randall Cook, Frederick Grube, Samuel Martin, Theron Cookingham, Michael McDonald, Morris Haley, Richard I. Ward, Samuel Harris, James Corcoran, William Ward, James McMurdo, James H. Coughlin, John Hetzer, Lucius E. Weaver, John O'Brien, Harvey Howe, Andrew I. Craft, Robert Powers, John Williams, Charles Dailey, Horace Howe, Charles Provost, George Wolf, Morris R. Darrohn, James Howit, George Provost, William Woodruff, William Johnson, John W. Day, Nicholas Rickart, John A. Worth, Adam Desmond, John H. Justice, William Ritcher, Darius D. Dietrich, Frank Keyes, Truman H. Robbins, and John Fisher.

Rush, New York · United States