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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Lucius Veasey

(1830 - 1906)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 28 year old laborer living with his parents and 2 siblings in Claremont, NH. He enlisted at age 32 in Company G, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 27 September 1861, and mustered as 6th Corporal on 12 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam ...

by a fragment of shell which caused a compound fracture of the occipital bone.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital No 1 in Frederick, Maryland and was discharged for disability there on 22 April 1863.

After the War

In March 1868 he received a pension on account of

incapacity resulting from epilepsy. His disability was rated total and permanent by Examining Surgeon Thomas Sanborn of the Pension Bureau.

By 1870 he was back in Claremont, a railroad baggage master, newly married, and living with his recently widowed mother Amanda and brother Samuel. By 1880 he was a laborer in Windsor, VT and in 1900 was a railroad flagman there.

References & notes

His service from Child,1 who says he was born in Claremont. The quotes above from Barnes.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emma F Marshall (1849-1914) in 1870 and they had 3 children.

Birth

09/07/1830; Danville, Quebec, CANADA

Death

05/20/1906; Windsor, VT; burial in Ascutney Cemetery, Windsor, VT

Notes

1 Child, M.D., William, A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Bristol (NH): R.W. Musgrove, Printer, 1893, Roster pp. 187 - 202 [AotW citation 13472]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 1, Issue 2, pg. 177 [AotW citation 13518]

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