Herbert Lafayette Lincoln

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old bonnet presser living with his parents and brother Frank in Franklin, Nortfolk County, MA. He mustered on 9 August 1862 as a Corporal in Company A, 35th Massachusetts Infantry.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot which fractured his frontal (skull) bone in action on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap on South Mountain.

He was admitted to the Newton University Hospital in Baltimore, MD on 20 September with what appeared to be a simple scalp wound. He was generally without pain and seemed to be recovering until 6 October when "a state of low muttering delirium supervened. When spoken to the patient would become conscious for a few moments, but would immediately relapse into a comatose state which continued until the 9th [of October 1862] when death resulted."

His service basics from Carruth,1 who has him as Robert L. Lincoln, and Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.2 Wound and death details and the quote above from the MSHWR,3 as Private H. S. L----. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

10/03/1840; Franklin, MA

10/09/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Union Street Cemetery, Franklin, MA