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(1819 - 1893)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 41 year old carpenter in East Boston. He enlisted on 18 May 1861 and mustered on 22 May as First Sergeant of Company K, 29th Massachusetts Infantry. He was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company G to date from 18 January 1862, and Captain of Company K on 21 May (mustered 3 August). He was wounded by a piece of shell, his arm broken, in action at White Oak Swamp, VA on 30 June 1862. He was on leave, convalescing, to 10 August, then briefly on recruiting duty in Boston before rejoining his Company on 22 August.
On the Campaign
He commanded his company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He resigned and was discharged for disability - with "an obscure chronic disease of the stomach" - on 9 January 1863. Exactly one year later he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 18th Regiment, Corps d'Afrique, later designated Company I, 89th United States Colored Infantry. He mustered out as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C on 12 August 1864.
After the War
He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1868, but by 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a house carpenter in Boston.
References & notes
His service information from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines1, the History,2 source of his command at Antietam, and his Compiled Service Records (29th Mass.)3, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Louie F Bariess (1827-1920) and they had daughters Mary and Ella by 1860.
Birth
1819; Portsmouth, NH
Death
02/15/1893; Boston, MA; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 330; Vol. 7, p. 307 [AotW citation 29877]
2 Osborne, WIlliam H., The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Late War of the Rebellion, Boston: Albert J. Wright, printer, 1877, p. 190 [AotW citation 29878]
3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29879]