Lewis County G.A.R. Posts

# 27 - Port Leyden - Post charter revoked 1876.
Major Gustave F. Merriam, 5th NYHA. Joined 3d NY Artillery at Syracuse Dec. 1861 as 1st Lt., Battery F, age 26; discharged to 5th NYHA and appointed major Nov. 1862; mustered out March 13, 1865.
# 200 - Lowville - Chartered Sept. 6, 1882.
Colonel Guilford D. Bailey, 1st NYLA. 2d Lt. 2d US Artillery, 1856; 1st Lt. 1861; Captain and Commissary of Subsistence 1861; appointed colonel of 1st NYLA Sept. 25, 1861; KIA May 31, 1862 at Fair Oaks, VA.
# 315 - Harrisburg - Chartered Dec. 14, 1883.
Private William S. Austin, Co. A, 20th NY Cavalry. Joined at Denmark July 1863, age 20; died July 8, 1864, but NYS AGO does not give further details. [William was born in Harrisburg, NY, on Jan. 16, 1843; enlisted on July 31, 1863; died of typhoid fever in a hospital in Portsmouth, VA; buried in Denmark, NY.]
# 318 - Constableville - Chartered Nov. 25, 1882.
Mullen.
# 385 - Port Leyden - Chartered May 19, 1883.
1st Lt. Henry J. Botchford, Co. D, 44th NYSV. Joined Sept. 1861 at Albany as Sgt., Co. I, age 22; promoted to 1st Sgt. April 1862; to 2d Lt. Dec. 1862; to 1st Lt. Aug. 1863; mustered out with regiment Oct. 11, 1864.
# 525 - Copenhagen - Chartered Nov. 12, 1884.
Captain Frederick M. Leonard, Co. A, 20th NY Cavalry. Joined Sept. 3, 1863 at Sacketts Harbor as 1st Lt., age 32; promoted to Captain Oct. 14, 1863; resigned May 25, 1865.