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There are interesting details about Haviland Gifford and his service in the American Civil War in Jane Betsey Welling's "They Were Here Too, Vol. 3, pg. 384: Haviland Gifford had an enviable Civil War record. He enlisted September, 1861 as volunteer in the Washington County Regiment which Colonel Crocker, lawyer of Cambridge, was recruiting; advanced to 1st Lt. and Adjutant at Albany, November, 1861 and after surviving the great battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Chancellorsville took part in the siege of Petersburg and Richmond where he was in command after Colonel Crocker was captured and invalided at home. He was mustered out as Lt. Colonel in charge of the 93rd New York at Albany June 29, 1865.

Also in the book are five published letters from Haviland to his father, detailing his Civil War actions.

Haviland Gifford first married Permelia White (1819-1843) and had one son, Frederick Allen Gifford (1842-3). In 1848 Haviland married Jane Maria Becker and had four daughters; Permelia Gifford Eldred; Anna Gifford Parker; Belle Gifford; Blanche Gifford Gould.

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War have placed his grave in Prairie Home Cemetery, Climax, Kalamazoo, MI. This seems a bit unlikely if the place of his death is correct.

Birth	24 Feb 1820	Easton, Washington County, New York
Death	3 Apr 1901	Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana

Father	Allen Gifford (1792 - 1890)
Mother	Anna Hoag (1795 - 1884)
Sibling	Hiram Gifford (1816 - 1897)
Sibling	Elisha Gifford (1824 - )
Sibling	Lydia T. Gifford (1832 - )
Sibling	Moses A. Gifford (1835 - )
Sibling	Cornelia W. Gifford (1836 - )