Alfred Lewis Beggs enlisted as a private in Company C of the 120th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry in Johnson County on August 14 1862. He was mustered in at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois on October 29, 1862. After taking part in a skirmish with Confederate forces near Hopesdale, Arkansas, the 120th Regiment was assigned to provost duty at Fort Pickering in Memphis, Tennessee. The regiment was partictularly hard hit by small pox, measles, and pneumonia. After serving just four months and sixteen days Alfred died from dysentery in the overcrowded 400 bed Gayoso Hospital at Memphis on February 13, 1863.
Alfred left behind a young widow, Sarah WILHELM Beggs and two sons, John Lewis Beggs, age 3, and Alfred Alexander Beggs, age 18 months. (Around 1880 my great grandfather Alfred Alexander Beggs changed our name to Biggs.)
Sarah later married Henry Wood and had three children by him while living in Illinois. Sarah died in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and is buried beside her son Alfred Alexander Biggs in the Akins Cemetery.
Alfred Lewis Beggs was described in Army documents as 5'6" tall, light hair, blue eyes and light complexioned. At the time of enlistment his stated occupation was farmer.
His grave site is unknown, however, it is presumed to be among the hundreds of soldiers later exhumed from scattered regimental cemeteries in the area and reinterred at the Memphis National Cemetery as unknown soldiers due to the deterioration of the original wooden markers.
Alfred left behind a young widow, Sarah WILHELM Beggs and two sons, John Lewis Beggs, age 3, and Alfred Alexander Beggs, age 18 months. (Around 1880 my great grandfather Alfred Alexander Beggs changed our name to Biggs.)
Sarah later married Henry Wood and had three children by him while living in Illinois. Sarah died in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and is buried beside her son Alfred Alexander Biggs in the Akins Cemetery.
Alfred Lewis Beggs was described in Army documents as 5'6" tall, light hair, blue eyes and light complexioned. At the time of enlistment his stated occupation was farmer.
His grave site is unknown, however, it is presumed to be among the hundreds of soldiers later exhumed from scattered regimental cemeteries in the area and reinterred at the Memphis National Cemetery as unknown soldiers due to the deterioration of the original wooden markers.
Alfred Lewis Beggs enlisted as a private in Company C of the 120th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry in Johnson County on August 14 1862. He was mustered in at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois on October 29, 1862. After taking part in a skirmish with Confederate forces near Hopesdale, Arkansas, the 120th Regiment was assigned to provost duty at Fort Pickering in Memphis, Tennessee. The regiment was partictularly hard hit by small pox, measles, and pneumonia. After serving just four months and sixteen days Alfred died from dysentery in the overcrowded 400 bed Gayoso Hospital at Memphis on February 13, 1863.
Alfred left behind a young widow, Sarah WILHELM Beggs and two sons, John Lewis Beggs, age 3, and Alfred Alexander Beggs, age 18 months. (Around 1880 my great grandfather Alfred Alexander Beggs changed our name to Biggs.)
Sarah later married Henry Wood and had three children by him while living in Illinois. Sarah died in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and is buried beside her son Alfred Alexander Biggs in the Akins Cemetery.
Alfred Lewis Beggs was described in Army documents as 5'6" tall, light hair, blue eyes and light complexioned. At the time of enlistment his stated occupation was farmer.
His grave site is unknown, however, it is presumed to be among the hundreds of soldiers later exhumed from scattered regimental cemeteries in the area and reinterred at the Memphis National Cemetery as unknown soldiers due to the deterioration of the original wooden markers.
Alfred left behind a young widow, Sarah WILHELM Beggs and two sons, John Lewis Beggs, age 3, and Alfred Alexander Beggs, age 18 months. (Around 1880 my great grandfather Alfred Alexander Beggs changed our name to Biggs.)
Sarah later married Henry Wood and had three children by him while living in Illinois. Sarah died in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and is buried beside her son Alfred Alexander Biggs in the Akins Cemetery.
Alfred Lewis Beggs was described in Army documents as 5'6" tall, light hair, blue eyes and light complexioned. At the time of enlistment his stated occupation was farmer.
His grave site is unknown, however, it is presumed to be among the hundreds of soldiers later exhumed from scattered regimental cemeteries in the area and reinterred at the Memphis National Cemetery as unknown soldiers due to the deterioration of the original wooden markers.
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