(1828 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Education: New York University Medical School, Class of 1852
Command Billet: Regimental officer
Branch of Service: Medical
Before Antietam
Resident of Newton Lower Falls, he was practicing medicine and prominent in chartering the new Masonic Lodge at Newtonville in 1861. He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the 12th Massachusetts Infantry on 29 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and died the same day.
More on the Web
Service data from Massachusetts Soldiers1 and personal details from family genealogists online.
Birth
03/03/1828; Middlebury, VT
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pg. 3 [AotW citation 1228]