KIA 1864

1 CO Cavalry Co. K

3rd Great Grandfather - Sixth Corporal, Fifth Corporal, Fourth Corporal, Companies L and E, 1st Colorado Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Born on June 9, 1835 in Virginia (Kanawha County, West Virginia), and moved from West Virginia to Kansas with his brother James in 1860 and arrived by boat from St. Louis to Atchison. Enlisted in Company C, 2nd Colorado Volunteer Infantry on September 7, 1861 in Nevada City, Colorado Territory, and Mustered In on December 1, 1861 at Denver, Colorado Territory. Transferred as a Sixth Corporal to Company L, 1st Colorado Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on December 15, 1862. Promoted to 5th Corporal in May 1863. Absent from regiment in July and August 1863 on detached service in Denver, Colorado Territory. Promoted to 4th Corporal in September 1863. He was transferred to Company E, 1st Colorado Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Battalion at Fort Lyon, C.T. on January 16, 1865. Mustered out on November 18, 1865. Returned to Kansas and married Sarah E. Smith in Jackson County on December 28, 1865. Lived in that state until the 1870's, then moved back to West Virginia. Died on December 27, 1879. Brother of Second Lieutenant James B. Hastings, 11th Kansas Infantry/Cavalry, U.S. and Private William Hastings, 8th Virginia Cavalry, C.S.A.