Henry E. Finney (1840 - 1916)

Died 27 Jul 1916 at about age 76 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Henry was born in 1840. He passed away in 1916.

Newspapers

1863-Dec-4, “The Jeffersonian Democrat”

... Among the prisoners in Richmond from the 105th O. V. M., was Woodard, Co. F, now here, with myself, paroled. Among those left back in prison, Marsh and Serg’t Brown, Co. F; Wm. Dayton, Co. E; Corp. Finney, and a private of Co. B, were all that I saw. While there, Greenbacks could be sold to the guard one dollar for fifteen Confederate. The Rebels appeared rather gloomy over the prospects before them, and many of them told me they did not want to fight any longer, and declared that their cause was hopeless. If I had not been paroled at the time that I was, I should have escaped with a Rebel Sergeant, who was going to pilot me through to our lines. You may give this a place in your paper if you please. Although badly written as it should is, every word of it is true, as thousands are willing to testify, and, as for myself, I am out of hell, and if I thought the other place was as bad, my life in the future should be altogether different. — Yours, James A. Mowrey ^[1]

Sources

Military

"United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NHDJ-Q65 : 24 March 2016), Henry E. Finney, 1865.

Footnotes

1. ↑ “The Jeffersonian Democrat”, (Chardon, Ohio), 1863-Dec-4, page 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/72175265/