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Private

Franklin Moody Adams

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Massachusetts Light Artillery, 8th Battery

Before Antietam

A boot maker's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old boot maker in Boston, MA. He was a skate maker in Boston when he mustered as a Private in the 8th Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery for 6 months' service on 31 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 28 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/1842; Boston, MA

Death

11/28/1862; Boston, MA; burial in Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 5, pg. 446 [AotW citation 28887]

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