Henry Huffer and Benjamin Cohee Collection

Henry F. Huffer Letters, Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable, Box 8b.

Benjamin Cohee Letters, Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable, Box 7. 

U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Henry Franklin (“Frank”) Huffer (b. in Indiana ca. 1838) was from Newbern, Bartholomew County, Indiana and served as a corporal in Co. G, 6th Indiana Infantry.  He mustered into service on September 20, 1861 and died of disease at Camp Shiloh, Tennessee on April 25, 1862.  The Huffer family came to Indiana by way of Ohio and  Kentucky, where H. F. Huffer’s father, David, was born.  The family is apparently descended from an ancestor named Johannes Hoffert of Berks County, Pennsylvania.  Henry F. Huffer, his wife, Alapher (b. ca. 1833), and their children do not appear in the Federal Census of 1860.  In the 1850s the Huffers had migrated to Kansas, where two of their five children were born, but returned to Indiana before the beginning of the war.  Huffer’s widow and children remained in Newbern following the war.  The collection includes letters written by Huffer to his wife while he was in service, letters by various relatives, including a pre-war letter written by H. F. Huffer’s sister, Sarah, and one by a brother, Aaron Huffer, who served with him in Co. G, 6th Indiana.  There is also a letter written by Huffer’s company commander to Alapher following her husband’s death.  

This collection also includes letters written to Alapher Huffer by her brother, Benjamin Cohee (b. ca. 1837), who also resided in Newbern where he made his living as a tenant farmer.  Their father, Thomas Cohee, was born in Delaware ca. 1800, and the Cohee family had lived in Delaware since the early 18th century, having relocated there from Maryland.  The Cohees migrated to Indiana by way of Ohio, where Benjamin and Alapher were born.  At the time of the 1860 Census (in which the family’s name is spelled “Cohe”), Benjamin and he and his wife, Elizabeth (“Lidy”), and their two small children lived next door to Cohee’s father.  Benjamin Cohee mustered in as a private in Co. H, 12th Indiana Infantry on August 17, 1862 and was killed at the Battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864.

Transcribed by Michael Ellis, December 2014 

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Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable

Letters

Displaying 1 - 20 of 20
ID Letter Date Author Recipient From To
15422 HufferCohee1 August 19, 1859 Sarah Huffer Henry Franklin Huffer , Alapher Huffer Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN Bartholomew County, IN
15423 HufferCohee2 November 8, 1861 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Hardin County, KY Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15424 HufferCohee3 November 20, 1861 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Hardin County, KY Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15425 HufferCohee4 December 5, 1861 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15426 HufferCohee5 December 13, 1861 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer KY Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15428 HufferCohee6 February 1, 1862 Henry Franklin Huffer Aaron Huffer Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15430 HufferCohee7 March 24, 1862 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Columbus, Maury County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15431 HufferCohee8 April 10, 1862 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Pittsburg Landing, Hardin County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15432 HufferCohee9 April 13, 1862 Henry Franklin Huffer Alapher Huffer Pittsburg Landing, Hardin County Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15434 HufferCohee10 April 28, 1862 James Moffat Alapher Huffer Pittsburg Landing, Hardin County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15438 HufferCohee11 February 1, 1863 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer , Elizabeth Cohee Grand Junction, Hardeman County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15438 HufferCohee11 February 1, 1863 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer , Elizabeth Cohee Grand Junction, Fayette County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15439 HufferCohee12 March 7, 1863 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Grand Junction, Hardeman County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15439 HufferCohee12 March 7, 1863 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Grand Junction, Fayette County, TN Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15440 HufferCohee13 September 25, 1863 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Vicksburg, Warren County, MS Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15441 HufferCohee14 April 17, 1864 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Albany, Dougherty County, GA Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15444 HufferCohee15 May 22, 1864 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Kingston, Bartow County, GA Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15445 HufferCohee16 June 11, 1864 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Marietta, Cobb County, GA Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15447 HufferCohee17 June 19, 1864 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Big Shanty, Cobb County, GA Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN
15448 HufferCohee18 July 5, 1864 Benjamin Cohee Alapher Huffer Marietta, Cobb County Newbern, Bartholomew County, IN

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