Posted 7/24/13 on the MAPP Family
Facebook Group
Last night
marked the return of the show “Who Do
You Think You Are” on the TLC cable channel. The person featured was Kelly Clarkson and through her research she found that her great
(3X) grandfather was a Union Soldier in the Civil War.
Well, we too
have our very own Civil War hero by the name of Appy MAPP. Like Kelly
Clarkson’s ancestor, Appy MAPP was
wounded in battle. Here is a little
information concerning his service and the USCT Regiment he served. Pass this along to your children so they can proudly
participate in their history class when the Civil War discussion is presented.
Appins Mapp is listed in our Civil War Soldiers & Sailors
book: Mapp, Appins (Appinus) alias Napp, Happy. Black. Union. Enlisted 1863 in 2nd US Colored Cavalry Co. I.
Wounded in foot. Discharged 1865. In Grangeville in 1890 Union Veterans Census.
Service Record not found.
2nd
Regiment Cavalry
Organized at Fort Monroe, Va.,
December 22, 1863. Attached to Fort Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North
Carolina, to April, 1864. Unattached Williamsburg, Va., Dept. of Virginia and
North Carolina, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Corps, Army of
the James, to August, 1864. Unattached 3rd Division, 18th Corps, to December,
1864. Unattached 25th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1865. Cavalry Brigade,
25th Corps, Dept. of Virginia and Dept. of Texas, to February, 1866.
SERVICE.--Duty
at Fort Monroe, Portsmouth and Williamsburg, Va., until May, 1864.
Demonstration on Portsmouth March 4-5. Action near Suffolk March 10.
Reconnaissance from Portsmouth to the Blackwater April 13-15. Butler's
operations on the south side of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond
May 4-28. Capture of Bermuda Hundred and City Point May 5. Swift Creek May
8-10. Operations against Fort Darling May 10-16. Actions at Drury's Bluff May
10-13-14-15 and 16. Near Drury's Bluff May 20. Duty in trenches at Bermuda
Hundred until June 13. Point of Rocks June 10. Richmond Campaign June 13-July
31. Baylor's Farm June 15. Assaults on Petersburg June 16-19. Siege of
Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to February 18, 1865. Duty before
Petersburg until July, 1864. Moved to Deep Bottom July 25. Action at Deep
Bottom July 27-28. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Actions at
Deep Bottom September 2 and 6. Chaffin's Farm September 29-30. Darbytown Road
October 7. Battle of Fair Oaks, Darbytown Road October 27-28. Near Richmond
October 28-29. Duty in trenches north of James River until February, 1865.
Ordered to Norfolk February 18. Duty in District of Eastern Virginia at
Norfolk, Suffolk, etc., until May. Ordered to City Point, Va.; thence sailed for
Texas June 10. Duty on the Rio Grande and at various points in Texas until
February, 1866. Mustered out February 12, 1866.
