Jean Baptiste Carrin, Jr

Jean Baptiste Carrin, Jr

Jean Baptiste Carrin, Jr. (AKA John B. Carrin) USA g2grandfather

Born 1 Sep 1834 in Nord, Valenciennes, France, with his family moved from Illinois to N.W. Territory in Iowa in 1857 then back to Ill. because of a Sioux Indian massacre of the settlement of Spirit Lake, Iowa, then back to Iowa in 1860 because of the threat of the Civil War.  He later joined the Union army in Illinois, at age 30 married with 4 children, and was assigned to Co E, 130th Illinois (later transferred to Co G, 77th Illinois).  Sick since winter of ’64-‘65, he went to hospital first in New Orleans, then transferred to New York, and finally released in Chicago with consumption.

Probable campaigns:  Red River Campaign March 10 - May 22, 1864. Advance from Franklin to Alexandria, La.  March 14-26. Bayou De Paul, Carroll's Mills, April 8. Battle of Sabine Cross Roads April 8. Regiment mostly captured at Sabine Cross Roads and confined at Tyler, Texas, 13 months. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20, Garrison duty at New Orleans, La., June, 1864, to January, 1865.  “Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 18 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 153 Enlisted men by disease. Total 177.”