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Note: Lloyd William Berry was born in New York City and resided in Brooklyn from 1845 to 1892. He was a volunteer fireman there. He enlisted 19 April 1861 at Lincoln's first call for 75,000 troops on April 15, 1861. He received a promotion on October 4, 1861 from Ensign to Lieutenant* in the 11th Regiment, NY Volunteers, Company E (Ellsworth's Zouaves - a colorful regiment known for their strict discipline and morals and especially for their esprit de corps, reflection of the leadership of Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War.) During the first battle of Bull Run, Lloyd attempted to keep the raw untrained and frightened young soldiers from running away by beating them with the flat of his sword. Lloyd W. Berry was promoted to Acting Captain from May to June of 1862. Then he was made Acting Paymaster of the U.S. Military Railway, Department of the Gulf from 1862 to 1865. Part of that time he was stationed in New Orleans. After the Civil War until 1882, he was Superintendent Warehouse Stores, Brooklyn Water Front with E. B. Bartlett Co. and had his own warehousing business of weighing and forwarding from 1882 to 1909. Lloyd married Gabrielle (Ella) Mott in Southport, Connecticut in 1869. It must have been a very happy marriage as they were known all their lives as "the Lovers." They had six children - Emily, Lloyd, Marion, Eleanor, Fred, and a little girl who died about age two. It was a lively family. The girls were pretty and had many beaux. The eldest daughter, Emily, told the story of a Sunday afternoon a friend drove up with his carriage to take her for a ride. Her mother did not approve of her going out. Just as the carriage arrived at the door, a wheel broke and her mother declared it God's punishment for such frivolity. She was a gentle loving lady in general. It is unfortunate that the only picture we have of her is one taken when she was an old lady. One day in 1909, Lloyd appeared with his wife at the doorstep of Emily and Arthur C. Howland's on Sansom Street in Philadelphia "looking like death." He was a small slight man. One of the stevedores had refused to move one of the crates unloaded on the New York dock. Lloyd quickly picked it up and heaved it into place which resulted in a strangulated hernia. He knew he was very sick. By this time his wife was growing senile and was unable to look after him so he turned to the only one he knew who could help him. He died within a few days. Gabrielle continued to be cared for by her daughter. She was on a visit with her son, Fred, in Washington State when she died in 1913. * General Orders, No 114, General Headquarters -- State of New York, Adjutant- Generals Office, Albany, December 4th, 1861 Film #:M551 Roll 10
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