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This site is about the genealogy of the Stoke family, centered on George Washington Stoke, Sr., who earned distinction in the Union Army during the Civil War.
During the early days of the Civil war in August 1861 George W Stoke enlisted in Company D 103d PVI having helped to recruit the company. He was mustered into service September 25 1861 and reached the front with the regiment in March 1862 serving under Gen. McClellan during the Peninsular campaign. He was promoted from the ranks to a lieutenancy April 10 1862 after the battle of Fair Oaks taking command of a brigade and on his return to the regiment in November 1863 he was made captain of Company B. He re-enlisted as a veteran and with the regiment was captured at Plymouth NC April 20 1864 and was confined successively at Andersonville Ga, Charleston SC, and Columbia SC prisons. He escaped twice but first time was recaptured the fourth night when seventy five miles away. The second time he escaped by bribing the guard, giving him a gold watch valued at $100 to allow six prisoners to go through the dead line.
Three of these setting out for Sherman's army were re-captured; Capt. Stoke and two others reached the Santee River, found a small boat chained to a tree, released it and after eleven days and nights reached Santee Island. Two days later they were picked up by some soldiers from a Union gunboat doing blockade duty near Georgetown SC.
Reaching home Capt. Stoke rejoined his regiment at Roanoke Island NC thirty days later, and afterward served as its adjutant to the close of the war. He was mustered out in July 1865 having served about four years, nine months of which time he was prisoner of war.
Capt Stoke participated in every war and skirmish in which the regiment was engaged the list including during the year 1862 the siege of Yorktown Va May 1 battle of Williamsburg Va May 5 Fair Oaks Va May 31 Chickahominy Swamps Va June 26 White Oak Swamps June 26 Railroad Bridge Va June 29 Long Bridge June 30 Jones Point June 30 Charles City Cross Roads July 1 Hamson Point Va July 2 Kingston NC December 14 White Hall December 16 Goldsboro NC December 17 Also the three days siege and capture of Plymouth NC April 20 1864 besides skirmishes at Blackwater Va October 3 October 31 and December 2 1861 Southwest Creek NC July 7 1863 and Foster Mills NC July 27 1863 Capt Stoke is now engaged in the oil business in Reynoldsville.