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(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his parents' place in Bath, ME. He enlisted and mustered as Corporal, Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was reduced to Private, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth on 5 September 1843, and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave, which a stone for him in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath. He's buried in the Crawford Burying Ground, in "a back pasture on what was the Oscar Wright farm, North Bath, ME".
Birth
01/02/1843; Bath, ME
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Crawford Burying Ground, Bath, ME
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6614]
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. 168 [AotW citation 20806]