Gray Cameron

Cherokee Advance, Apr. 17, 1885 -- page 1

"Alexander Baer worked for the writer.  Baer was possibly engaged to a girl named Hathaway who then became interested in a man named Gray Cameron (from the Steuben County, New York, area).  In 1864 Baer and Cameron fought over her.  Baer disappeared and there were suspicions that Cameron had killed him (he had not).  Sometime later a body, thought to be Baer, was found in a lake and there demands to have Cameron arrested.  Cameron escaped and joined the Army (67th PA*) then died in Libby Prison.  Baer resurfaced and said that he thought that he had killed Cameron, so he traded coats with a (drunk) man named Perry (whose body was found in the lake).  After the fight Baer went to Pittsburgh, adopted an alias, and joined the Army.  After the war he went to California and other areas out west.  Miss Hathaway married in 1867 and died (last year -- 1884?).  After Baer went back and worked a day in the Pennsylvania mill, the scene of the fight with Cameron, he decided he preferred the west."

The only soldier named Cameron in the *67th PA Regiment found on this  National Park Service website:

Cameron , John
BATTLE UNIT NAME: 67th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry
SIDE:     Union
COMPANY: B
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private
ALTERNATE NAME:
FILM NUMBER: M554 ROLL 17
PLAQUE NUMBER:
NOTES: none

Lieutenant Cameron Exchanged

A tour in the United States of America: containing an account of ..., Volume 2
 By John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart


"...exchanging Lieut. Alan Cameron one of these associates as you are pleased to term us of Lieut. Col. Connolly for one of your officers of equal rank in the latter part of 1777 or the beginning of 1778 at Philadelphia...to be immediately exchanged as prisoners of war...".

Alexander Cameron In The Fifth Infantry

From the Archives of Michigan:  Alexander Cameron's entry at the 5th Michigan Infantry - Pages 22 and  23:

Cameron, Alexander.  Enlisted in company C, Fifth Infantry, Nov. 8, 1862, at Detroit, for 3 years, age 25.  Mustered Nov. 8, 1862.  Joined regiment at Camp Curtin, May 15, 1863.  Taken prisoner at Gettysburg, Pa., July 2, 1863.  Returned to regiment Dec. 20, 1864.  Mustered out at Jeffersonville, Ind., July 5, 1865.  Present residence, Soldier's Home, Milwaukee, Wis.

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Charles Cameron Letterbook

Found in the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan:


Charles Cameron letterbook, 1805-1807.
Main Author: Cameron, Charles, 1766-1820.
Summary: This volume contains copies of letters sent from Charles Cameron, British officer and governor of the Bahamas. The letters concern dealings with prisoners, interacting with officers, courts martial, colonial law and the state of the colony, crops on the islands, small pox and other sicknesses, and preparing ships for service.

William L. Clements  

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