Pipes Military
"TAPS"
Day is done
Gone the sun
From the lakes
From the hills
From the sky
All is well
Safely rest
God is nigh.
Captain John Pipes Jr. enlisted as a First Lieutenant in "Heard's Brigade". On June 14th, 1776, he was listed as a Second Lieutenant, Continental Army. In August, 1776, he was a 1st Lieutenant in Captain Syvanus Seely's Company, Colonel Ephraim Martin's Regiment, Brigadier General Nathaniel Heard's Brigade, State Troops. He was at the battles of Long Island, New York, on August 27, 1776, and White Plains, New York, October 28, 1776. Captain John Pipes joined the Army of General George Washington, and was there for two years. Now he had been promoted to Captain. Captain John Pipes was in sixteen battles during the war of the Revolution. Mary Pipes states in her pension application that her husband was on furlough from Washington's Army, then encamped at Elizabethtown.
Kenner B. Pipes joined the Union Army on October of 1861. He was assigned to Company "K" of the 7th Virginia Infantry. The 7th became known as the "Bloody Seventh". Their first battle was the battle of Antietam. After this they were engaged in most of the major battles of the war as an important part of the famous Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Kenner was in the hospital in March of 1863, returning to duty on April 20th, just in time for the Chancellorsville Campaign. He again entered the hospital in Washington D.C. on June 18th of 1863, and was released on July 28th. Kenner was wounded again at Belle Plain in May of 1864, but the records again do not tell us why. The final chapter of his life ends on October 27th, at a place called Hatcher's Run. He took a shot to the body that was fatal.
Private James Pipes Company "E" Fourteenth Regiment Volunteer Infantry. Tyler County, West Virginia. Unit mustered in August 1862, mustered out June 1865.
Joseph Pipes-1782, First Battalion, Washington Co. Recruited near Fort Lindley. Near present Greene County Line. Abram Hathaway, Richard Hathaway, Nathan Hathaway, JOSEPH PIPES.
Name: JOSEPH PIPES
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 80 00
Sums Received: 240 00
Description of service: Pennsylvania militia
When placed on the pension roll: July 15, 1833
Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831
In Joseph's Revolutionary Pension Application he stated that he was a prisoner for four years by Indians and was tortured.
Cleveland Grover Pipes-W.W.I - Private
Army Serial Number 2014163
Residence: Zionsville, Indiana
Inducted at Boone County, Indiana on May 25, 1918
Honorably discharged on demobilization: February 20, 19__.
Obediah Brumfield Pipes - Pvt. Company I, 3rd Kentucky Cavalry - Morgan's Raiders (Civil War)
Thomas Pipes - Company B, 37th N. Carolina Infantry (Civil War)
Pvt Wesley E. Pipes and Pvt Washington Pipes - 28th Louisiana Infantry, Company I, Gray's Regiment (Civil War)
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Read Civil war letters that Kenner B. Pipes sent to his mother and sister.
