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(1845 - 1885)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Giving his age as 18 (he was 16), he enlisted on 30 December 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 23 January 1862.
On the Campaign
Major Hyde had ordered him to the rear with the other "guidon boy" Johnny Begg, but they both snuck back to join the Regiment before its charge that afternoon.
The rest of the War
He was discharged by civil authority, probably for being underage, on 5 February 1863. He enlisted again, on 20 November 1863 in Company C, 2nd Maine Cavalry and mustered out with them on 6 December 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a laborer/lumberman at Rockton in Clearfield County, PA. In 1880 he was a farmer and lumberman in Huston Township, Clearfield County.
References & notes
His presence at Antietam from Hyde,1 who says he was killed there and "buried on the field." His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Emily Newell for the early pointer to Williams.
He married Mary (?) in about 1871 and they had 3 sons - Charles, Edward, and Joseph - by 1880.
Birth
07/21/1845; Cornville, ME
Death
04/04/1885; burial in Morningside Cemetery, DuBois, PA
1 Hyde, Thomas Worcester, Following the Greek Cross or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894, pg. 100 [AotW citation 14232]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 267 [AotW citation 29288]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29289]