Many thanks to Beth at the Thomasville, Ga. Genealogy Library for the CSA Military documents showing definately that our Legrand served in the Confederate army.
Historical and Biographical History of the Township of Dayton, Cattaraugus Co. NY.
History of the First Kentucky Brigade. (Ancestry.com)
Letter from Preston B. Scott Surgeon of the Regiment to Capt. C. H. Higginson Commander.
Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York. (A Pioneer Cemetery.)
Salina Bell Rowe obituary - Jamestown Evening Journal 1907
1870 PA. Census.
1850, 1860, 1870 and 1900 US Census.
1870-1 and 1871-2 Allegheny City, Pa. city directories.
Book of Pittsburgh City Deaths 1870-1905 (Family Search), Herbert Rowe
Notes: Legrand has been a very hard person to track down. We finally know without a doubt that he joined the confederate army at Camp Burnett for the length of the war or 3 years, and served with the 4th Kentucky Infantry. He was detailed to hospital duty in Bowling Green, Ky. He received an early discharge for Pulmonary Consumption, on July 28, 1862. We find him in Pa. in the 1870 census, and he is listed in the 1871-2 Allegheny City, Pa. directory as being a Carpenter living at 148 Ridge Ave. and then he disappeared, never to be heard from again. New info might suggest he was born in 1828, and died in Poplar Bluff, Mo. March 5, 1879. In the Aug. 29, 1880 Memphis Tenn. Daily Appeal, there is a letter from a steamboat captain looking for Legrand Rowe, a carpenter. With the new information, it is obvious that he must have died or had an accident and died. Where he is buried is still a mystery. We continue to search around Allegheny City, Pa. and now in Kentucky and Mo.
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