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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Jordan Golder Carvill

(1837 - 1901)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

From Lewiston, age 24, he enlisted 21 August 1861 as Corporal, Company K, 7th Maine Infantry.

On the Campaign

He served as Color Corporal and was severely wounded in the side in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was again wounded, in action at Salem Heights, VA on 4 May 1863. He transferred to the 1st Maine Veteran Infantry 21 August 1864, and was promoted Sergeant (1864). He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 20th Maine Infantry on 15 February 1865 (commissioned 22 March), then of Company H, 14th Maine Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieutenant, date not given, and mustered out 28 August 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Lewiston, ME.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as J.G. Carver. His service from the Maine Adjutant General.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/09/1837; Lewiston, ME

Death

12/24/1901; Lewiston, ME; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Lewiston, ME

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6688]

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, Appendix D, pg. 279 [AotW citation 17109]

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