Horace A. Dean

In 1855 he was a 25 year old mason in Boston, MA. He was a painter there when he enlisted on 1 July 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company B, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 3 July. He was promoted to Corporal on 12 February 1862.

He was listed as missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was listed as absent without leave and was demoted again to Private on 21 October 1862. He rejoined his company on 6 November 1862 but was court-martialed on a charge of desertion, found guilty, and forfeited his pay for January 1863. He left them again on the march from Somerset to Snyder's Bluff, KY between 1 and 17 June 1863. He was listed as absent without leave until 23 July, then dropped from the rolls as a deserter. By 10 September 1863 he was sick in the General Hospital at Mound City, IL.

He was transferred to Company D of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry on 29 January 1864. In March 1864 he was a nurse at the US Army post hospital at Cairo, IL and was detailed to accompany a fellow soldier home to Massachusetts. He did not return in the 20 days allotted, probably remaining in Boston, and was ordered arrested for desertion. The outcome was not given and he was discharged at the end of his 3-year term of service in June 1864.

He was a painter in Boston at the time of his death in 1873.

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the Massachusetts Census of 1855. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary A. Potter in January 1851 and they had at least 3 children.

c. 1831 in NH

06/16/1873; Boston, MA; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, MA