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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Benjamin Frank Morse

(1836 - 1898)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

From Concord, he enlisted at age 24 in Company A, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 9 September 1861. He was appointed Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 30 March 1863.

After the War

He was living in Penacook, NH in 1893.

References & notes

Basic information from Child1. Details from family genealogists.

Birth

1836; Thetford, VT

Death

04/27/1898; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Penacook, NH

Notes

1   Child, M.D., William, A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Bristol (NH): R.W. Musgrove, Printer, 1893, Roster pp. 131 - 148  [AotW citation 13436]