James Duffield Cochran and Charlotte Francina Linden

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Husband James Duffield Cochran ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 12 Feb 1832 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 3 Jul 1863 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 1 2
         Buried:  - Franklin Cemetery, Franklin, Venango Co, PA 4

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         Father: Charles Lacy Cochran (1800-1868) 3 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Duffield (1798-1867) 3 7 8 9

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       Marriage: 22 Feb 1855 1 3 10

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Wife Charlotte Francina Linden ¹

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            AKA: C. F. Lenden, Charlotte Francina Sinden 3
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   Other Spouse: Ira E. Howard (1823-      ) 11 - 1868 12

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Children

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1 F Hettie Cochran ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Bef 1879 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Franklin, Venango Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - James Duffield Cochran

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He died July 2. [HVC 1879, 484; Duffield Family, 55]
His education was that acquired in the common schools of Franklin, Pennsylvania. In his boyhood days he displayed considerable mechanical genius, and always employed his leisure time in making some design in wood. He was also employed as "mail boy" in carrying the mail, on horseback, between Franklin and Butler. He narrowly escaped freezing to death on several occasions on the road between Franklin and Butler, while carrying the mail in the winter of 1846-7. In the fall of 1848, he went to Ripley, New York, to learn the wagon-making trade. Shortly after his marriage, he removed to Wattsburg, Erie county, Pennsylvania, and engaged extensively in the wagon and carriage manufacturing business.
In the summer of 1862, the Government was sadly in need of soldiers, and he felt it his duty to offer his services to his country. Accordingly he enlisted in a company that was then recruiting in the neighborhood of Wattsburg. The Company rendezvoused at a camp near Erie, Pennsylvania, where, on the 5th of September, 1862, a regimental organization was effected, as the One Hundred and Forty-fifth regiment P. V., Colonel H. L. Brown, commanding. On the organization of the company he was elected 2d Sergeant, to date from August 26, 1862. At the organization of the regiment his company was selected as the color (C) company of the command.
At this time the army of the Potomac was returning from the Peninsula, and the army of northern Virginia, under Pope, was retiring, broken and dispirited from the fatal fields of Bull Run. Accordingly, the 145th was ordered on the 11th of Sept. 1862, to the front. In thirty-six hours the regiment was within sound of the enemy's cannon. On the 17th of September, 1862, it participated in the battle of Antietam. After this battle, the 145th regiment was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division of the Second Corps, General Hancock commanding. At the battle of Fredericksburgh, Dec. 13, 1862, the 145th took an active part. About 500 men went into the battle, and 226 were either killed or wounded. In this battle, Sergeant Cochran particularly distinguished himself, and was looked upon by the rest of his comrades as "one of the bravest of the brave." His regiment had charged upon the stone wall at the foot of Mary's Heights. Swinton says: "Of the 5000 men who participated in that brilliant charge, more than 2000 fell."
He also took part in the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1, 2, and 3, 1863. Here he also displayed great coolness and bravery.
On the morning of the 2d, of July, 1863, the 145th reached the Gettysburg battlefield. This was the battle of the war, and here it was that Sergeant Cochran, then in command of his company, received his death shot. He was gallantly leading the men under him in the charge, when he fell dead, having been shot through the heart. The 145th entered this engagement 200 strong, and lost in killed and wounded, over 80 men. In Bates' history of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, he says of the Brigade to which the 145th were a part: "The Brigade, now led by Colonel Brooke, passed over the low grounds to the right of little Round Top, soon came upon the wheat field, where the battle had raged, and was now raging fearfully. With heroic daring, he led his devoted band against the enemy, holding the fortresses of wood and rock wrenched from the Third Corps, drove the enemy in confusion from the dearly bought ground. But the advantage, so bravely won, could not be held; for the enemy, in heavy force were flanking the position on the right, and exposing the brigade to capture, or annihilation, and no alternative existed but to retire." "Swinton's Army of the Potomac," says, "This Brigade experienced the same fate as those that had gone before, it was driven back at the sacrifice of one-half its men."
It was in this fearful struggle in the afternoon of the 2d of July, 1863, that Sergeant Cochran gave up his life. The Colonel in command of the regiment wrote that "Sergeant Cochran was on the eve of promotion to a Lieutenancy, and led his company in the battle of Gettysburg to the front of the battle, where he fell with his face to the foe that his country might live."
He was an earnest and devout Christian, being a leading member in the M. E. church. His body was recovered and taken to his home, Wattsburg, and buried with all the honors of war. Sergeant Cochran's remains were removed from Wattsburg to the beautiful cemetery in Franklin, where he sleeps side by side with his father, mother and daughter.
From the time he enlisted to the hour of his death, he never was away from his command one day; never sick, and always "fit for duty." There was no duty he tried to evade-always at his post. He treated everybody alike, and never spoke ill of any one. He was respected by all the soldiers of his company and regiment. [HVC 1879, 484]

1 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 484.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 766.

3 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 55.

4 —, The Duffield Family; A Sketch of William Duffield, of Venango County, PA, and His Descendents (PA: The William Duffield Association, 1905), Pg 71.

5 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 198, 483.

6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 766, 1010.

7 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 759.

8 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 198, 483, 484.

9 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1010.

10 Joan S. Hanson & Kenneth L. Hanson, Marriages from Venango County Sources (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994), Pg 44.

11 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 484, 498.

12 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 498.