Unassigned & Company "E" 7th West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
1860 Marshall County Census
SLOAN (672)
William...45-wm...carpenter...PA
Adaline...39-wf...PA
Lulu...5-wf...VA
Ersula...3-wf...VA
Sidney A. Morgan...15-wf...VAService Record: At age 43, enlisted and mustered in at Wheeling Mar. 3, 1864. Credited to Pleasants County, north of Middle Island Turnpike. A carpenter, he was born in Crawford County, Pa. Initially unassigned, then served in Co. E. (Widow’s Pension filed under Co. B.) “Died in USA Gen” Hospt. Seminary, Alexandria, Va. on July 30 (day varies in records) 1864 by reason of wounds received in action while in the line of his duty.”
He had been admitted to the hospital the previous day after sustaining a gunshot wound of the left arm at Petersburg, Va. One record says he was shot on June 22, but dates conflict. Hospital card: Residence before enlistment, “Moundsville, Va.”
Adaline Morgan Sloan, widow of the deceased soldier, and a resident of Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, applied for a government pension. She stated she married the soldier at Elizabethtown (Moundsville) on May 26, 1854, at which time he was 38 and she was 31. Per the marriage record, he resided in Wheeling and was the son of James & Elizabeth Sloan. She was a Marshall County resident, the daughter of James & Elizabeth Morgan. Per pension application, she & the soldier had three daughters: Elizabeth L. (1855), Arsula (1857), and Adaline C. (1861) Late Lt. Col. Lockwood of the 7th gave an affidavit in support of her pension claim.
The soldier and his family are found in the 1860 census of Marshall County.