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My once in a lifetime find

15 Mar 2015

With the cold weather finally breaking I decided to find some treasure! On a permission hunt in Gainesville VA, I found my best find yet. My heart was racing at what I thought was a gold coin, upon further investigating it turned out to be something even better. I found a 1861 cival war dog tag belonging to soldier John Vanderpool. Found in Gainesville near the second battle of Manassas where he was injured in the line of duty. His brother also enlisted the same day as john. However his brother Simon Vanderpool became a deserter, eventually caught and reassigned to a different reg. Even more interesting, you can read a deposition from John explaining the death of his tent mate that got shot in the groin and bleed to death. Below is a little more info I was able to dig up. VANDERPOOL, JOHN.— Age, 28 years.  Enlisted, September 30, 1861, at Cortland, to serve three years;  mustered in as private, Co. F, October 4. 1861;  wounded in action, August 28, 1862, at Gainesville, Va.;  transferred to Co. D, July 1, 1864;  discharged, October 24, 1864 near Petersburg, Va. After the war, Vanderpool gave a deposition on the death of Thomas Hoffman, his tent mate, in the Battle of Gainsville. He died April 1, 1897 and is buried at Green Hills Cemetery, Dryden, NY, in the "Civil War Veterans" section

 

Danny – Virginia, USA

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