Company "I" 6th West Virginia Cavalry, formerly 3rd West Virginia Infantry
Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty
1860 Marshall County Census
TAGG (844)
Stewart...28-wm...day laborer...PA
Mary...30-wf...VA
William M...7-wm...VA
Margaret...4-wf...OH
Mary C...2-wf...VAService Record: Joined for duty & enrolled at Camp Hewes near Clarksburg on July 6, 1861; mustered in there on July 10. He re-enlisted in 1864. “Prisoner of war. Captured at New Creek, W.Va. Nov. 28, 1864. Exchanged March 25, 1865. Died May 11, 1865 at Moundsville, W.Va.” “Born Adams, Pa.”
Stewart had been considered a deserter when he was, in fact, a POW.
Stewart is found in the 1850 census of Belmont County, Ohio, a son of Mathew & Elizabeth Tagg, born in Pa. Stewart married Mary Noice (also spelled Nice) in Marshall County in 1852 and they were living there in 1860 with children William, Margaret and Mary. Stewart’s widow died in 1875. A likely brother, James Tagg, married Rachel Noice in 1851 in Belmont County.