Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

The Woolseys

“The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass, Volume 2” By Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, published 1874

Charles William Woolsey,  husband of Jane Eliza Newton, perished in the “Lexington,” on L. I. Sound, Jan. 13, 1840, leaving behind him a young family of eight children, seven daughters and a son, the eldest but twelve years old. His children were

Abby Howland Woolsey, unmarried.

Jane Stuart Woolsey,  unmarried.

Mary Elizabeth Watts Woolsey, married Rev. Robert S. Howland, D.D., Episcopal.  Mary died on May 31, 1864, leaving behind her four daughters.

Georgiana Muirson Woolsey, married Dr. Francis Bacon, Prof. of Surgery in the Yale Med. School.

Eliza Newton Woolsey, married Joseph Howland, an amateur farmer at Matteawan, Dutchess Co., N. Y.

Harriet Roosevelt Woolsey, married Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge, Jr., LL.D., of Philadelphia, Prof. of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania.

Caroline Carson Woolsey, married Edward Mitchell, a lawver in New York.

Col. Charles William Woolsey, married Arixene Southgate Smith. He is a gentleman farmer at Briar Cliff, near Sing Sing, N. Y.