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(1838 - 1903)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 23 year old farmer in Eliot, ME, he enlisted on 5 August 1862 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company H, 20th Maine Infantry on 29 August in Portland. He was reduced to Private, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his toes in action at Boteler's/Shepherdstown Ford on 20 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the field hospital in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of Sharpsburg, MD, and was transferred to the US Army General Hospital, Alexandria, VA by about 15 October. He discharged for disability there on 14 January 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a traveling agent (?) living with 7 siblings on his parent's farm in Pownal, Cumberland County, ME. By 1880 he was farming with them all in Freeport, and in 1900 he was married (Elizabeth J, 1840-?) and farming his own place, his widowed mother and sisters Elizabeth J (wife?) and Julia F living with them.
References & notes
Birth
10/1838; Horton, Nova Scotia, CANADA
Death
07/05/1903; South Freeport, ME; burial in South Freeport Cemetery, South Freeport, ME
1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 30224]
2 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 30225]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 409 [AotW citation 30226]