Name: Andrew Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Virginia
Regiment Name: 190 Virginia Militia.
Regiment Name Expanded: 190th Regiment, Virginia Militia
COMPANY: E
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M382 roll 23
Name: Andrew Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Virginia
Regiment Name: 45 Batt'n Virginia Infantry.
Regiment Name Expanded: 45th Battalion, Virginia Infantry
COMPANY: C
Rank In: Second Lieutenant
Rank In Expanded: Second Lieutenant
Rank Out: Second Lieutenant
Rank Out Expanded: Second Lieutenant
Film Number: M382 roll 23
Name: Andrew Gunnoe
Occupation: Farmer
Enlistment Date: 18 May 1863
Enlistment Place: Wyoming County, West Virginia
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Service Record: Enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant on 18 May 1863 at the age of 44.
Commission in Company C, 45th Battn Infantry Regiment Virginia on 18 May 1863.
Killed Company C, 45th Battn Infantry Regiment Virginia on 12 Aug 1864 at Wyoming County, WV.
REGIMENT: 45th Infantry Battalion Virginia
Date of Organization: 21 Dec 1863
Muster Date: 2 Mar 1865
Regiment State: Virginia
Regiment Type: Infantry
Regiment Number: 45th
Battles Fought
Fought on 15 Feb 1862 at Fort Donelson, TN.
Fought on 15 Apr 1863 at Logan Court House, WV.
Fought on 7 May 1863 at Wayne County, WV.
Fought on 15 Jun 1863 at Boone County, WV.
Fought on 18 Jun 1863 at Wayne County, WV.
Fought on 23 Jun 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 6 Jul 1863 at Pike County, KY.
Fought on 8 Jul 1863 at Pike County, KY.
Fought on 8 Jul 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 1 Aug 1863.
Fought on 15 Oct 1863.
Fought on 21 Oct 1863 at Boone County, WV.
Fought on 30 Oct 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 12 Nov 1863 at Boone County, WV.
Fought on 14 Nov 1863 at Boone County, WV.
Fought on 15 Nov 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 4 Dec 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 9 Dec 1863 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 15 Dec 1863.
Fought on 28 Feb 1864 at Wayne County, WV.
Fought on 9 Mar 1864.
Fought on 10 Apr 1864 at Logan County, WV.
Fought on 12 Apr 1864 at Wyoming County, WV.
Fought on 9 May 1864 at Cloyd's Mountain, VA.
Fought on 5 Jun 1864 at Piedmont, VA.
Fought on 5 Jun 1864.
Fought on 24 Jul 1864 at Kernstown, VA.
Fought on 12 Aug 1864 at Wyoming County, WV.
Fought on 19 Sep 1864 at Winchester, VA.
Fought on 25 Sep 1864 at Harrisonburg, VA.
Fought on 19 Oct 1864 at Cedar Creek, VA.
Fought on 18 Jan 1865 at Cabell County, VA.
Fought on 8 Feb 1865 at Cabell County, VA.
Fought on 2 Mar 1865 at Waynesboro, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Fayetteville, WV.
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Name: James A. Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Virginia
Regiment Name: 190 Virginia Militia.
Regiment Name Expanded: 190th Regiment, Virginia Militia
COMPANY: E
Rank In: Corporal
Rank In Expanded: Corporal
Rank Out: Corporal
Rank Out Expanded: Corporal
Film Number: M382 roll 23
Name: James Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Virginia
Regiment Name: 36 Virginia Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 36th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (2nd Kanawha Infantry)
COMPANY: B
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Film Number: M382 roll 23
Name: James Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Virginia
Regiment Name: 45 Batt'n Virginia Infantry.
Regiment Name Expanded: 45th Battalion, Virginia Infantry
COMPANY: C
Rank In: Sergeant
Rank In Expanded: Sergeant
Rank Out: Sergeant
Rank Out Expanded: Sergeant
Film Number: M382 roll 23
Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
about James Gunnoe
Name: James Gunnoe
Side: Confederate
Roll: M598_117
Roll Title: Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865
Sgt, Co C, 45th Va Inf - Captured at Cedar Creek Oct 19, 1864
Transferred to US General Hospital [Hammond Hospital] Jan 28, 1865
Released June 2, 1865
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Name: William Gunnoe
RESIDENCE: Kanawha County, West Virginia
Enlistment Date: 1 Jun 1861
Enlistment Place: Peytona, West Virginia
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 1 June 1861 at the age of 20.
Enlisted in Company B, 36th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 1 Jun 1861.
Name: William Gunnoe
Enlistment Date: 18 Apr 1863
Enlistment Place: Logan County, West Virginia
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 18 April 1863.
Enlisted in Company E, 45th Battn Infantry Regiment Virginia on 18 Apr 1863.
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Andrew Jackson Gunnoe [Son of Daniel Gunnoe 1787-1860 and Sarah Stewart 1797-1821]
Born: 1819 Giles, Virginia
Died: 14 Aug 1864 Craney, Logan, West Virginia
Spouse: Mary Pauline Canterbury [Daughter of John Quincy Canterbury 1800-1866 and Amy Stewart 1805-1879]
Born: 3 May 1822 in Logan, Logan, West Virginia
Died: 1900
Marriage: abt 1839 in Giles, Virginia
Children Sex Birth
Rebecca Jane Gunnoe F abt 1840
James A Gunnoe M 10 Jul 1841 in Crany, Logan, Virginia
John W Gunnoe M 1846 in Crany, Logan, Virginia
Sarah Jane Gunnoe F abt 1847 in Logan, Virginia
Daniel Henry Gunnoe M 5 Sep 1849 in Giles, West Virginia
Matthew Ellison Gunnoe M 13 Jan 1852 in Wyoming, West Virginia
Amy Gunnoe F 20 Mar 1854 in Logan, West Virginia
Mary Ann Gunnoe F Mar 1856 in Wyoming, [county], West Virginia
Nancy Gunnoe F 1858 in Pineville, Wyoming, Virginia
Ellen Gunnoe F abt 1860
Zany Gunnoe F 9 Nov 1862 in Wyoming, Virginia
Andrew Gunnoe Killed From Ambush
Added by sandijerry on 4 Oct 2007
The following story by the author, is based on notes of G. P. Good. Manuscript and information given by Blanche Gunnoe Cook, grandaughter of Andrew Gunnoe.
Andrew Gunnoe, a member of a prominent pioneer family of Wyoming, was a captain of Confederate Home Guards. He had a prosperous farm and home near Craney and a large family of children, all at home when the war broke out. Andrew left his farm and property in the care of his wife (Mary Polly Canterbury) and two sons, the oldest one being about sixteen, during his many absences on military duty.
Andrew had given to each of these sons, John W. and Dan a fine young colt, which colts were kept on pasture at the McDonald farm a few miles away. As soon as hostilities commenced, particularly by the zealous Home Guards of both sides, the Confederate McDonalds were singled out for harassment, pillaging, theft and deviltry by Union Guards, Their stock, particularly horses, was stolen as a matter of course, and with them the two Gunnoe colts. It was openly talked that James Gadd and Floyd Cooke took the colts after being informed of their whereabouts by George P. Stewart, an uncle of Gunnoe's wife, and sold them in Kanawha County for Union Cavalry horses.
Gunnoe was furious, not only because of losing the colts, but because they were sold for Union Cavalry use. He looked up Stewart and in the ensuiing quarrel, Gunnoe shot and killed Stewart in the road near Squire Jim Cooke's place. The next day Mrs. Gunnoe and son John W. went to Stewart's funeral.
This theft and killing caused the Gunnoes to become a special target for depredations by Union Home Guards. In Andrew's absence, Union raiders repeatedly went to his home to threaten and harass the family and look for Andrew. One of them wantonly destroyed Mrs. Gunnoe's sidesaddle by slashing it with his knife in her presence. Once, upon hearing the raiders approaching, Andrew hid in the storage room under the house, entry to which was by a trap door in the floor which was kept concealed by spreading a rug over it. Hidden there, he heard the men rudely question and threaten his young daughter, who stoutly refused to give them information of his whereabouts. Many times the raiders carried away provisions or drove off livestock.
Before Andrew went into the Confederate Arny, he buried his savings in the yard, near a small tree which marked the sopt. When dug up after the war, the paper money was ruined by damp and mold.
Andrew left Wyoming and went into the Confederate Army and remained away several months leaving his farm and family in the care of his son, John, then a youth of sixteen or eighteen, who was able to do the heavy work and keep the farm going with the aid of his mother's counsel and the help of his brothers and sisters.
In the summer of 1864, Andrew come home on furlough. Knowing his danger, without doubt he kept out of the way and out of sight of his enemies, but the "grape vine" carried the news that Andrew was at home for a few days. His enemies made their plans.
On the day Andrew was to leave to return to army duty, before he took leave of his family, he said to John, "Son, I should like to have a talk with you before I go away." Father and son left the house and walked up the hill into a field near the woods to pick blackberries while they talked privately. A shot, fired from ambush, struck Andrew, who fell mortally wounded. John, realizing the dangerous situation, started to run, but after a few steps fell, his feet entangled in the briers..At this instant, a voice called out from the woods, "For God's sake, don't shoot the boy." The ambush party emerged from concealment and took hold of John as if to take him away. As the mother and older children came from the house to where Andrew lay dying, with almost his last breath he said to his wife "Go to them and beg for John." They were induced to spare the boy and let him go, then rode away.
It was soon learned that Pemberton Cooke Sr., and his son, Perry, and Lt. Jacob Webb prepared the ambush and shot Gunnoe. They had failed to find him away from his home and knew he had to show himself to return to his post. Seeing him ine field, they shot him.
Mrs. Gunnoe was very bitter about the murder of her husband and threatened to have the ambushers tried for murder when circumstances should permit, but later reconsidered the matter and did not do it.
Leonidas H. Cook shot from ambush on Peach Tree: Capt. Andrew Gunnoe slain
Added by sandijerry on 3 Jan 2008
Cook Wounded, Gunnoe killed
Leonidas H. Cook, a Union soldier and nephew of Pemberton Cook, Sr., was shot from ambush, in 1863, near peach Tree in Raliegh County. The ball passed through his temples, severing the optic nerves, causing blindness. Captain Andrew Gunnoe was suspected by Cook of loosing the shot, to which Gunnoe retorted: "If I did it I thought I was shooting at Pem. or his son, Perry."
After this Gunnoe went into the Rebel army and remained away for some time, but returned on a furlough to visit his family some time in August 1864. On the day he was to return to his army post, he was shot and killed from ambush on the hill near his Clear Fork home. It was soon learned that Pemberton Cook, Sr., his son, Perry, and Lt. Jacob Webb did the shooting.
His son the Rev. John W. Gunnoe often related the circumstances of the shooting to the writer, who said that just after dinner, and before he was to take his leave, Gunnoe said: "Son, I should like to have a talk with you before I go away." The young man, 18 years of age , said he and his father walked up the hill from the house, crossed the fence and as they entered the woods, a volley of shots rang out. His father fell, shot through the heart; the boy turned and started to run, and in doing so his feet became entangled in the brush and he fell sprawling over a small log. At this moment a voice called out from the place of concealment: "For God's Sake don't shoot the boy."
Capt. Gunnoe was buried in the cemetery on the hill near his home, and so far as we know this ended the sectional warfare, in Wyoming County. When the war was over, Aunt Polly Gunnoe threatened to have Pemberton Cook indicted and tried for the murder of her husband. These threats no doubt led to the indictment, trial and conviction of James A. Gunnoe, a son of Andrew Gunnoe, for murder in the second degree for the killing of Edley Whitt. This was in 1865, Gunnoe lost a leg in th battle of South Mountain, and was the only man ever loged in the penitentiary for Civil War killings. He served two years, and was pardoned by Governor Wm. E. Stevenson. The petition asking pardon was signed by Squire James Cook and other brothers of Pemberton Cook.
Denied Shooting
In 1907, forty-two years after the killing of Lester and Whitt, at a ministers' meeting at the Pine Grove Church, James A. Gunnoe said to the author: "Brother Goode, upon my honor as a Christian gentleman, I did not fire my gun into those poor prisoners. The mistreatment of prisoners of war was always repugnant to my sense of justice and honor.
It is said that Edley Whitt lingered at the clerk's office about 20 days, and that Mrs. Whitt visited her husband. A fine singer, she sang religious songs for her husband. It was while he thus lingered that Mattie Cooke heard him make the statement upon which James A. Gunnoe was convicted.
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James Anderson Gunnoe
Born: 10 JUL 1841
Crany, Logan Co., (West) Virginia
Died: 21 JAN 1924
Lillybrook, Raleigh Co., West Virginia [also shown as Wyoming Co., West Virginia]
Marriage: 2 JUL 1889 Wyoming Co., West Virginia
Hannah Acord
Born: 12 FEB 1849
Lawrence Co., Ohio
Died: ABT 1910
Children:
Sarah Jane Gunnoe
1870–1946
David Lewis Gunnoe
1872–
William Harrison Gunnoe
1873–1950
Mary Gunnoe
1876–1876
Matthew F Gunnoe
1877–
Mahala C Gunnoe [Hale]
1879–1947
Bertha Arizona Gunnoe [Zowa]1882-
Crock Gunnoe abt 1881 d. 15 Aug 1881
Henry Reed Gunnoe
1885–
Robert Felix Gunnoe
1886–
Ollie Gunnoe
1889–
Edna [Edney] Gunnoe
1891–
Homer [Hamer] Gunnoe [sometimes referred to as a grandson]
1895–
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1860 United States Federal Census
Name: William H Gunnoe
Age in 1860: 16
Birth Year: abt 1844
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1860: Kanawha, Virginia
Gender: Male
Post Office: Tyler Mountain
Household Members: Name Age
Margaret Gunnoe 55
Sarah J Gunnoe 22
John Gunnoe 21
George Gunnoe 19
Julia A Gunnoe 18
William H Gunnoe 16
Sabina A Medley 4 relationship not stated
Charles H B Medley 2 relationship not stated
James McGraugh 3 relationship not stated
JR