JOHN A-W AMICK
Have added middle initial based on gravestone. (John A. Amick shown in CSR,Thurmonds Rangers)
Parents Eli Amick and Mary Nuance , Enlisted 63 64, captured, prisoner at Camp Chase , Private Amick Rangers (the 21 year old in 1865)
"John Amick, Tyree Co. Va Inf. CSA Appears on a list Of prisoners confined in Military Prison at Wheeling, Va. (also known as Atheneum Prison) Apl 31 64 Age 18 years; height 5 ft. 11 in. Complexion dark, eyes blue; hair dark Occupation farmer County Nicholas State W. Va.
Arrested By Sgt. Fuller In Nicholas Co. W Va On Mch 7, 1864 Sent to Camp Chase Ohio Apl 4 / 64
8-14-34 The records indicate That 3 men named John Amick served In Co. A (Capt. John Amick) Hounshells Bt Va Cavalry and that from The date given the name Of one has been identified As the one requested. The age of one in 1865 Is shown as 21 yrs Another as 48 yrs As to other as 50. Union P of W
Rec Show that John Amick A part of Tyrees Co. Va Inf CSA was captured In Nicholas Co. Va, Mch 7th And imprisoned at Wheeling W. Va + Camp Chase, O. From the latter place he Was transferred to City Point Va Feb 25, 1865 (for exchange) His age is listed as 18 yrs Height 5 ft 11 in dark complexion
Blue eyes, dark hair Occup. Farmer res. Nicholas Co W. Va. Tyrees Co. mentioned Has not been identified But one co Tyrees record As Capt. Of Co. C, 22 . Regt Inf Until May 1 1862 and Peter W Nutter was a member of the co. However the name John Amick has not been Found on the rolls On file of that co Which rolls cover the Record from Sept, 1862 To Oct 31, 1864 Peter W Nutter also appears On a roll of Co A Hounshells Battn Va Cav, CSA"
The War Department's records in Washington, D. C., show that three men named John Amick served in Company A, Hounshell's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States Army, all of whom enlisted at Lewisburg, West Virginia, one of these was my father's uncle, a very large man, commonly called Big John, another was Big John's cousin, being smaller in stature and called Little John and the third was my father, who being tall and slender was called Long John to distinguish him from the older men. Little John became the Captain of this Company A and was thereafter commonly called Captain John. Big John, while on a furlough at his home in Nicholas County, was killed in attempting to evade capture by a guerilla band under the command of a guerilla captain named Riley Ramsey.
Following this incident, a squad from the army failed in an attempt to capture Riley Ramsey at his home, and Captain John resigned his commission in order to engage personally in guerilla warfare, hoping thereby to more effectively protect his community and people against the activities of those of the anti-Confederate point of view. His activities as a guerilla attacked attention to the extent that the Federal Government offered a substantial cash reward for him, delivered either dead or alive. Shortly thereafter, he was captured by Federal troops, but escaped by leaping from a second story window in a private home where he was being held, was successful thereafter in eluding his pursuers and after the war spent the remainder of his life in or near Nicholas County. His successor as company commander was a man named Tyree, who may or may not have been the William Tyree who served as captain of Company C, 22nd Regiment of Virginia Infantry, prior to May 1, 1862, as shown by the records of the War Department. (John Emick, Pioneer, cont....)