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(1842 - 1914)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old laborer in Boston, he enlisted on 1 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 3 July.
On the Campaign
He was listed as missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was with his Company to April 1863, when he was listed absent without leave. He returned to duty on 20 June 1863. He was sick in the hospital at Camp Dennison, OH from 27 August to at least January 1863, when he was transferred to Company E of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry. He was discharged at the end of his term of service in June 1864.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a painter in Bangor, ME. In 1900 he was a house painter in Brewer, ME, but by 1910 was in Waltham, MA, still painting.
References & notes
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 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his government headstone has him in Company M of the 29th - there was no such company.
He married the widow Sarah Bertha Strout Adams (1844-1929) in May 1867 in Lewiston, ME and they had 5 children.
Birth
08/05/1842; Lexington, MA
Death
12/14/1914; Poland, ME; burial in Bangor City Cemetery, Bangor, ME
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. 285 [AotW citation 29984]
2 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 29985]