- BIRTH: 1826, Kentucky
- DEATH: 22 Nov 1897, Rockdale, Texas
Father: Samual P. ORR
Mother: Eliza BARRY
Family 1:
Mary Jackson MAULDIN
- MARRIAGE: 24 Nov 1852, Pontotoc, Mississippi
- Martha E. ORR
- William H. ORR
- Eudora R. ORR
- Valentine ORR
- Rose ORR
- Robert ORR
- Frank L. ORR
- Maud B. ORR
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_Samual P. ORR _|
| |_________________
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|--Valentine B. ORR
|
| _Daniel BARRY ___
|_Eliza BARRY ___|
|_Rosanne TOLAND _
INDEX
Notes
1850 Census Mississippi Tippah Co. sheet #396, V.B. Orr is single and
occupation is Silversmith, and lives with John Y. Murray age 21 a
Phyisician, from Tenn and wife Emils from S.C.
1860 Census Miss. Pontotac Co. V.B. Orr occupation is watch repairing,
real estate worth $2500 personnal estate $3000, married to Mary J.
children Martha E., William H., Eudora R., William.
Valentine B. Orr at the age of the age of 36 enlisted in the Forty First
Mississippi Infantry, Company F in Pontotoc county. Valintine was a
Silversmith and Watch Repairman. He married Mary J. in 1855, and the
1860 census records that they have 4 Children.
His military record shows he served under W. F. Tucker, and Captain S.
E. Melson.
November 25, 1863 he was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge
(near Chattanooga Tennessee).
December 3, 1863 he was admitted to a General Field Hospital in
Bridgeport, Alabama for Catarrh. (Catarrh is the inflammation of the
mucus membrane especially nose and throat).
December 6, 1863 he was released to the Provost Marshall and transferred
to Nashville (records show Dept. of the Cumberland, Hd. Qrs. Prov. Mar.
General, Nashville, Tenn).
Jan 2, 1864 he was admitted to U.S.A. GenŽl Hosp (prison hospital)
Nashville, Tenn for Chronic Rheumatism. On Jan 22 he is returned to
Provost Marshal .
January 24, 1864 he was transferred as a POW to Louisville Kentucky
January 25, 1864, he was received at Military Prison Louisville, Kentucky
January 27, 1864 he was transferred to *Rock Island Barracks, Illinois
January 29, 1864 interned January 29, 1864 at Rock Island
February 25, 1865 transferred from Rock Island for exchange
March 6, 1865 admitted Jackson Hospital, Richmond Virginia for Debilitas
(debilitas weak and feeble)
March 8, 1865 furloughed for 30 days from Jackson Hospital
* At the end of the War of 1812, the U.S. War Department decided to build
forts along the Mississippi River to better assert federal authority.
In 1816 troops built a fort on the western tip of Arsenal Island,
naming it Fort Armstrong after Secretary of War John Armstrong.
Settlements, which eventually became Davenport and Rock Island,
developed across from the fort under its protection. After the Black Hawk
War in 1832, and the removal of most Indians in the area, the fort was no
longer needed. Troops left in 1836 and the fort gradually fell to ruin.
The Civil War brought renewed federal activity to the island. As
Union armies pushed south along the Mississippi River they sent prisoners
north. The Quartermaster Department of the Army built a series of prisons
at Alton, Quincy, Rock Island, and Fort Douglas outside Chicago.
The Rock Island Barracks were flimsy wooden structures on the north
shore of the island near its center.
Headquarters were established in the George Davenport home. From
December 1863 to July 1865, Rock Island was home to more than 12,000
military and political prisoners. About 2,000
prisoners died there.
1870 Census Miss. Pontotoc Co. Orr, Valentine age 44 occupation, Farmer
Real Estate $2200, personnal Estate $800. Wife Mary 36, Children Martha
15, William 13, Eudora 11, Valentine 9, Rose 5, Robt 2.
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