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From Jackson, Michigan to Jackson, Mississippi and Back Again

Anson Croman

Anson Croman was Eli and Aaron Cizewski-Robinson's maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Cheryl Robinson's  maternal great-great-grandfather.

"The regiment roster of Anson's company where he is listed as 18 yrs.old, that is what was required to enlist; actually he was 16. He was born in Dec. 1844." (Ralph Robinson)
Map of the 20th Michigan Infantry Regimental History (Anson's unit) Movements
Map
Orange = 1862 (Jackson, Michigan; Fredericksburg, Virginia)
Red = 1863 (Southeast Kentucky; Vicksburg & Jackson, Mississippi
; Knoxvile, Tennessee)
Green = 1864 ( East Tennessee; Overland Campaign, T
he Crater, and Petersburg, Virginia)
Blue = 1865 (Petersburg and Pursuit to Appomatax, Virginia: Grand Review, Washington, D.C.; Return to Jackson.)

Public domain map from:

Maps detailing the 20th Michigan's position during various battles, sieges and movements.
Earrings

Marge Robinson: "Gold loop earrings that Anson sent home to his mother during the Civil War. My mother had them and said that the first grandchild of hers who had pierced ears, which these needed, could have them.  .  Barb (Cheryl's sister) has them in a frame alongside a picture of Anson. Barb must have been the first adventurous one."

Promotion
Anson's Promotion to corporal, on January 26th, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia.
To find Anson's listing in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service (external internet sites) enter Croman in the Last Name box on the search page, then click the Submit Query box.

Ralph Robinson notes that on the regimental roster of Anson's company he is listed as 18 yrs.old, what was required to enlist. Actually he was 16. He was born in Dec., 1844.
To find a history of the 20th Michigan Infantry Regiment history in the Civil War Soldier and Sailors System, National Park Service (external internet sites) choose Michigan from the state menu and enter 20 in the Unit No. (or Ordinal) box,  then click the Submit Query box. This history has clickable links to the National Park Service's history of the battles cited in the above map.
Anson & Mary Croman
Anson & Mary Croman, undated
Roster
TEXT: Croman, Anson, Waterloo. Enlisted in company F, Twentieth Infantry, July 29, 1862 at Marshall, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Aug. 18, 1862. Corporal Nov. 1, 1864. Mustered out at DelLancey House, D.C., May 30, 1865. Present residence Munith, Mich.

(Page 31 of "Twenthieth Infantry," in Brown, Geo. H., ed., Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, appended to Cutcheon, Byron Mac, 1836-1908, The story of the Twentieth Michigan infantry, July 15th, 1862, to May 30th, 1865, Lansing, Mich., R. Smith printing co., 1904.)

(External internet sites): Roster of Company F. Note "Tenney" or Jenny Clark. A woman disguised herself as a man in order to serve.
Anson Croman & Family
Anson Croman, undated, front row, left

Marge Robinson writes: "he is my mother's mother's father.  I was a teenager (or almost) when he died so I remember him very well. My mother's father died when I was very young so Anson was the only grandfather that I really knew and I was the only female grandchild (& great-) until Donna and a cousin her age came along.

"I used to stay with grandma during the summer (where he lived) and he paraded me all over the metropolis of Munith including spending 15 cents to have my hair 'done' at the beauty shop."
Clip
Anson Croman, only Civil War veteran in Munith. Clipping from Jackson Citizen Patriot, unknown date.
Key
Closeup of key referred to in article and Anson is holding in the photo.

Anson died about 1937, about 93 years old. He is buried in Mt. Hope, Waterloo, Michigan.
(Photo, 2004, by Ralph Robinson, Anson's great-grandson-in-law.)
Record of Anson's burial site

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