This
is my maternal Great Grandfather Jacob Henry Sapp (1846-1908), he and
his younger brother William enlisted in the 1st New Jersey Volunteers in
1864, Willie was 13 and enlisted as a
drummer.
Their first battle was at Petersburg Va. and Willie was wounded
early on while Jacob took a mini ball later in thar battle. Willie's leg
was amputated in the field, he was transported to a hospital in
Washington D.C. where he died. The surgeons could not remove the ball
from Jacob and he was mustered out in 1865, the ball remained in his
body and caused his death 44 years later in 1908.
Willie's body was buried temporarily at Arlington House which was two months away from becoming a military cemetery. The temporary markers got knocked down and mixed up and many remains were lost. We believe that Willie is one of the 2,111 unknown Civil War soldiers reburied in the former rose garden at Arlington National Cemetery.
(Arba Morrow)
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