Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Genealogy and History

CIVIL WAR SERVICE RECORD OF VALENTINE B. ORR

Company Muster Roll

• 1.  Dated Feb. 10 to June 30, 1862


• February 10, 1862 V.B. Orr enlisted in the 41st Mississippi Infantry Volunteers, Company F, Commanded by Captain S. E. Melson.  A Company Muster Roll Record for Feb. 10 to June 30, 1862 says Valentine is absent without leave, then notes that he re-enlisted for 3 years on March 10, 1862.


• 2.  May 10, 1862


• Enrolled March 14 in Meridian for 3 years by W. F. Tucker (Tucker was a Commanding     Officer)


• 3.  June 30 to Oct 31, 1862 Last paid by Jas Kincannon. Present or Absent Present


• 4.  Nov & Dec 1862 Last paid by Jas Kincannon on Aug 31, 1862.   Bounty Paid, $50.00 Remarks Absent, sick 28 Nov. Brig. Surgeon


• 5.  Jan & Feb, 1863 Last paid by Foster & Bomar on Dec 31 Bounty Paid, $50.00 Present or Absent Present


• 6.  March & April, 1863 Paid by whom Maj Payton what time Feb 28, 1863 Present or Absent Present


• 7.  July & Aug, 1863 Last paid by Capt. Smith on June 30, 1863. Present or Absent Present


• 8.  Sept & Oct 1863 Last Paid by Maj Govan on Aug 1863 Bounty Paid $50.00 Present or Absent Present


• 9.  Nov & Dec 1863 Last paid by Maj Govan on Aug 31, 1863.Present or Absent Absent  Remarks Missing, supposed  to be captured at Bat Missionary Ridge Nov 25,1863


• Valintine B. Orr at the age of  the age of 36 enlisted in the Forty First Mississippi Infantry, Company F in Pontotoc county.    Valintine was a Silversmith and Watch Repairman.  He married Mary J. Mauldin in 1855, and the 1860 census records that they have 4 Children.


• His military  record shows he served under  W. F. Tucker, and Captain S. E. Melson. November 25, 1863  he was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge (near Chattanooga  Tennessee).


• December 3, 1863 he was admitted to a General Field Hospital in Bridgeport, Alabama for Catarrh.  (Catarrh is the inflammation  of the  mucus   membrane especially  nose and throat).


• December 6, 1863 he was released to the Provost Marshall and transferred to Nashville (records show Dept. of the Cumberland, Hd. Qrs. Prov. Mar. General, Nashville, Tenn).


• Jan 2, 1864 he was admitted to U.S.A. Gen'l Hosp (prison hospital) Nashville, Tenn for Chronic Rheumatism.  On Jan 22 he is returned to Provost Marshal .


• January 24, 1864 he was transferred as a POW to Louisville Kentucky January 25, 1864, he was received at Military Prison Louisville, Kentucky January 27, 1864 he was transferred to *Rock Island Barracks, Illinois


• January 29, 1864 interned  January 29, 1864 at Rock Island


• February 25, 1865 transferred from Rock Island for exchange


• March 6, 1865 admitted Jackson Hospital, Richmond Virginia for Debilitas (debilitas weak and feeble)


• March 8, 1865 furloughed for 30 days from Jackson Hospital


•  * At the end of the War of 1812, the U.S. War Department decided to build forts along the Mississippi River to better assert federal authority.


•     In 1816 troops built a fort on the western tip of Arsenal Island, naming it Fort Armstrong after Secretary of War John Armstrong.


•     Settlements, which eventually became Davenport and Rock Island, developed across from the fort under its protection. After the Black Hawk War in 1832, and the removal of most Indians in the area, the fort was no longer needed. Troops left in 1836 and the fort gradually fell to ruin.


•     The Civil War brought renewed federal activity to the island. As Union armies pushed south along the Mississippi River they sent prisoners north.


• The Quartermaster Department of the Army built a series of prisons at Alton, Quincy, Rock Island, and Fort Douglas outside Chicago.


•     The Rock Island Barracks were flimsy wooden structures on the north shore of the island near its center.     Headquarters were established in the George Davenport home. From December 1863 to July 1865, Rock Island was home to more than 12,000 military and political prisoners.  About 2,000 prisoners died there.
   

Contributed by Robert C. Daniel.

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