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(1838 - 1914)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a bootmaker, in 1860 he was a 22 year old bootmaker living with his parents and 2 younger sisters in Oakdale (West Boylston), Worcester County, MA. He enlisted in Boston as a Private in Company D, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry on 11 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot through both shoulders in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield, was at Camp Curtin near Harrisburg on 20 September, then admitted to the US Army hospital in the German Reformed Church in Harrisburg, PA on 23 September. He was discharged for wounds there on 23 November 1862.
In October 1864 a pension examiner noted:
The ball passed through the center of the left scapula [shoulder blade], and out through the right near its lower angle. The right scapula is diseased from the injury, and pieces of bone are being discharged, with large quantities of pus. There is no defect in the motion of the shoulder joint.
After the War
By 1870 he was a bookkeeper in West Boylston and in 1880 he worked in a button factory and lived next door to his parents there. In 1900 he was a mill worker in West Boylston and by 1910 had retired and lived alone with 2 cousins there.
References & notes
His service basics from Quint1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3 (2 cards). Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 quoted above, and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Rosanna Dow Pratt (1834-1905) in April 1863 and they had 4 daughters.
Birth
04/15/1838; Holden, MA
Death
01/01/1914; West Boylston, MA; burial in Mount Vernon Cemetery, West Boylston, MA
1 Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 325 - 341 [AotW citation 14427]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32113]
3 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 2, Part 2, p. 487 [AotW citation 32114]
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, p. 160 [AotW citation 32115]