Abel Goddard Rankin

Age 31, from Lewiston, he enlisted as Private, Company F, First Maine Infantry for 3 months service on 3 May 1861. He enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant, Company F, 10th Maine Infantry, and mustered on 4 October 1861. He was slightly wounded in action at Cedar Mountain in August 1862.

He commanded his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He mustered out with his Company in May 1863 and was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company F, 29th Maine Infantry on 13 November 1863. He was promoted to Captain on 1 November 1865 and mustered out 6 June 1866. He was honored by brevet to Major on 25 June 1866.

In 1870 he was an insurance agent in Springfield, MA. By 1872 he was a paperhanger in Boston, and in the same profession in Manchester, NH by 1879. He began receiving a Federal pension for heart disease in 1880 in Manchester. He became paralyzed and completely disabled by January 1886, and lived on a Federal disability pension thereafter.

Service from the Maine Adjutant General1 and Gould's History. 2 His occupation from Springfield, Boston and Manchester City Directories of 1870, 1872, 1879.

07/01/1831; Vassalboro, ME