From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in September 1862:
The Right Kind of Volunteer.
CONRAD BANCROFT, of the town of Canandaigua, has enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. Griswold, in Col. Johnson’s regiment, now being formed in Geneva.
Mr. Bancroft is a single man. He invests all his bounty and seven hundred dollars additional in the town bonds for a war fund, and has made a will by which, in case he does not return, all his property is to be distributed among the widows and orphan children of the volunteers from Canandaigua.
Such patriotism as this deserves notice. – There are some people in Canandaigua who can learn a lesson from such an example. –
Canandaigua Messenger.
His will benefited widows and orphans of volunteers
The New York State 148th site reproduces letters from Chaplain Ferris to the Seneca County Courier – he indicated that the 148th was part of the XVIII Corps’ drive toward Petersburg on June 15, 1864.
XVIII Corps – June 15, 1864
