Henry Augustus Osborne

A nail cutter's son, in 1860 he was a 17 year old tack cutter/nailer in East Bridgewater, MA. He enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered in as a Private in Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May. He was wounded at Savage's Station, VA on 29 June 1862.

He was wounded again, in a toe, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was in a hospital in Washington, DC into early 1863, then returned to his company. He reenlisted on 1 January 1864 at Blaine's Cross Roads, TN and was captured in battle at Bethesda Church, VA on 1 June 1864. He was held at Andersonville, GA and other prisons and exchanged at Wilmington, NC on 23 April 1865. He arrived at Camp Parole, Annapolis, MD 1 June and was mustered out on 15 June 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a house painter in East Bridgewater. He had retired there by 1910.

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emily Jane Lincoln (1847-1918) in 1866 and they had 6 children. Her brother David H. Lincoln (b. 1836), also in Company C, was mortally wounded at Antietam and died 4 days later.

06/19/1843; Weymouth, MA

11/21/1920; Brockton, MA; burial in Beaver Cemetery, East Bridgewater, MA