James Dwight Delva

Male, #2020, b. 1 March 1838, d. 23 August 1864
James Dwight Delva|b. 1 Mar 1838\nd. 23 Aug 1864|p2004.htm|Calvin Wilder Delva|b. 1 Feb 1813\nd. 29 Dec 1884|p29.htm|Lucy Maria Fuller|b. 10 Jan 1819\nd. 29 Mar 1900|p2003.htm|Jonathan Delvee|b. 21 Aug 1770\nd. 14 Dec 1850|p8.htm|Hannah Johnson|b. 14 Aug 1774\nd. 8 Apr 1851|p16.htm|James Fuller|b. 30 Jun 1793\nd. 22 Jun 1851|p5313.htm|Nancy Lesure|b. a 1798\nd. 4 Jun 1864|p5314.htm|

Relationship=Great-grandson of Peter Delvee.
Civil War Memorial in Warwick
     James Dwight Delva was born on 1 March 1838 at Warwick, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of Calvin Wilder Delva and Lucy Maria Fuller.1,2 On 2 June 1861 James married Augusta K. Partridge.2,3 On 1 October 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, the Twenty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment in Readville, Massachusetts. He served under General Burnside in North Carolina and later went with the regiment to join the Army of the Patomac. James Dwight Delva was wounded on 16 August 1864 at Petersburg, Prince George County, Virginia, just before the assault on Petersburg. He died on Tuesday, 23 August 1864 at Beverly, Burlington County, New Jersey, at age 26 years, 5 months and 22 days of wounds received before Petersburg, Virginia.1,4,2 The gravestone inscription at Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Massachusetts, reads:

James D. Delva
of Co. G. 24 Regt. Ms. Vols.
died Aug. 23, 1864,
AE. 26 yrs
.5

His name appears on the Civil War Memorial in Warwick Cemetery.
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Tribe of Calvin

Child of James Dwight Delva and Augusta K. Partridge

Citations

  1. Muse, Jeanne. "Delvey Family Group Sheets". Compiled 20 August 1995. Asheville, North Carolina.
  2. Allred, Paul W.. Descendants of Peter Delvey. N.p.: manuscript, 11 November 2002.
  3. The Gardner News, Gardner, Massachusetts, 7 April 1919.
  4. Massachusetts in Army, Navy 1861-65, Ancestory.com. Online www.ancestory.com, Ancestory.com. Ogden, Utah. Text downloaded 1999.
  5. Amidon, Ryan M.. Warwick Cemetery, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Rt. 78.. Gardner, Massachusetts: manuscript, 2001.
  6. Reunion Report. 1887 - 1988. Delvee Family Records, Warwick, Massachusetts.