| Let us not
forget the dedication and honor of the military men and women who
served their country between the big wars. We can thank them for
keeping the peace, a job just as important as winning a war.
But also, let us remember that on several occasions in our country's
history, these peace time warriors faced bullets and bombs that
killed and wounded just as surely as those used against us in "real"
wars. We mention here a few, including but not limited to;
the Barbary Coast Pirates during the administration of Thomas Jefferson:
the expedition against Poncho Villa, the Berlin air lift, the Lincoln
Brigade in Spain, peace keeping missions in Lebanon, Panama, Kosovo,
Somalia, Granada and as part of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you
know of a veteran related to any of our website's featured families who should be honored here, please let me known. |
TROWBRIDGE
PVT. CHARLES IRA TROWBRIDGE - Son of James
McGrew Trowbridge and Sarah Ann Snyder, was
born March 24, 1860 in Kingwood, Preston County,
(West) Virginia. He died some time after
1938 probably in Virginia. Charles enlisted
in the 2nd Artillery Regiment, Company E,
the U.S. Army on April 28, 1890 and received
a disability discharge on July 18, 1892.
Charles married Jessie Effie Blaney on March
14, 1895 probably in Kingwood. The couple
had three children: Mamie Pearl, born June
5, 1896 in Kingwood; Ruth White, born January
1, 1898 in Kingwood; Lloyd Warden Trowbridge,
born October 8, 1899 in Grafton, Taylor County,
West Virginia. SOURCE: (1) Francis
Bacon Trowbridge, THE TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY
(1908); (2) U.S. Army Register of Enlistments,
1798-1914 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations
Network, Inc., 2007), (1885-1890) L-Z. This
database contains a register of enlistments
in the U.S. Regular Army from 1798-1914. The
Regular Army is comprised of career soldiers
and maintained through peacetime. Therefore,
this database will not usually include individuals
who enlisted as part of a reserve or during
wartime for limited periods of time, or in
a military unit raised by a state. Data in
these registers was compiled from a variety
of other military records, including enlistment
papers, muster rolls, and unit records.
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