David Brainard Murray

A 25 year old grocer in Haverhill, Essex County, MA, he enlisted there as a Private in Company G, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 1 August 1862 and mustered into service on the 17th.

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

He was in a hospital in Alexandria, VA by October 1862 and was discharged at the Convalescent Camp there for disability from "incipient phthisis" on 22 November 1862. He enlisted again, as a Corporal in Company I, 60th Massachusetts Militia Infantry - a 100 unit - on 23 July 1864 at Readville, and mustered out with them on 30 November 1864 in Boston, owing the United States one canteen.

He was ordained a minister in September 1867 in Kensington, NH, and was a pastor there. He then served as pastor to congregations in Newburyport (1869-72), Walpole (1872-76), and Manchester (1876-78), MA. He was afterward in Manchester and Boston "without charge." He was President of the Rockingham (NH?) Conference for 5 years and Chaplain of the 35th Massachusetts Regimental Association.

He was probably a resident of the Soldier's Home in Chelsea, MA at the time of his death in 1917 at age 80.

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870, and a bio sketch in Nathan Franklin Carter's The Native Ministry of New Hampshire (1906). His gravesite is on Findagrave; he died exactly 55 years after the battle of Antietam.

He married Georgiana S Davis (1842-1922) in November 1860 and they had 3 sons. He married again, Martha L. "Mattie" Soule (1866-) in August 1885.

03/10/1837; Newmarket, NH

09/17/1917; Chelsea, MA; burial in Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden, MA