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Many thanks for the Shook info. I included him in my work of fiction _South Under a Prairie Sky: The Journal of Nell Churchill, US Army Nurse & Scout_ (named after Lucy Churchill's niece)--a Monmouth IL teacher sent me his military records--so I know he was paroled but died 10 days later. His father Dykeman Shook came down to get the body. His last words which are on his grave marker say that if the North were defeated it would be because of the traitors in the North. The Union soldiers reserved their worst hatred for the Copperheads, not the Reb soldiers. My mother's family plot is in Salter's Grove that I've visited. I think our Wordens were in the oystering business with the Salters in Bayonne NJ prior to us moving to IL, ca. 1863 or so. Capt. Richard Salter of Staten Island is a direct ancestor of Lincoln. Wordens and Lincolns both early settled Monmouth Co., NJ and are interrelated through the Joneses (Mordecai L.'s wife)/Chamberlains (as in Joshua's family).
The Shooks are an interesting family, early NW IL settlers from KY. It appears that they descend from Jacob Schuck a German Mennonite (read: basically Amish) who immigrated to MD ca. 1740. Mennonites were in both Germany and Holland. So Dykeman Sr.'s (John's father) wife was Mary Conkwright (original Dutch name, Kankwraeght) who it looks like emigrated from Westchester Co. NY (as in Washington Irving country, just no. of NYC) to NC, then to KY. But I did not know there were 10 in the family. My gggfather was Dykeman Shook, Jr., John's brother, who married a Worden. D. Mary E. Shook married James Beresford (father from N. Ireland), d. Ollie Beresford, my gmother, who m. William Worden, cousin to Eliz. Worden Shook.
As for Eaton's 20th IN I just looked up the Regt. history. It was heavily engaged with the Army of the Potomac: the Peninsula campaign, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and at Appomattox! His Regt. also was somehow active at the battle between the ironclads Monitor and Merrimac 3/62--as a Worden, I'm cousin to ADM John L. Worden, capt. of the Monitor. Perhaps they sharpshot from the shore, as I know hundreds of sailors and soldiers looked on at the battle and the burning of the Congress, etc. on 3/8. So I had 2 relatives at Hampton Roads!
Thanks again,
Kay Larson