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(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
An unmarried 21 year old lumberman from Springfield, ME, he mustered as a Private in Company C, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the left arm or shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds at 11 PM on 26 September 1862, probably at the Smoketown field hospital, and was buried on the field.
After the War
He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1 with details from The Stickney Family: a Genealogical Memoir (1869 [online]). Service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Wound detail from Nelson,4 who cites a newspaper account which says he was treated at the Franklin Hall Hospital in Chambersburg, PA, which is unlikely given the timeframe and fact that he was buried on the battlefield. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
More on the Web
Further details and a great story about how his body was identified for burial at the National Cemetery from a blog post by John Banks.
Birth
07/29/1840
Death
09/26/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 4228]
2 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, pg. 172 [AotW citation 20825]
3 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 29250]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 402 [AotW citation 20826]