Augustus H. Batchelder

A 20 year old resident of Newburyport, MA, he enrolled at Private, Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, and mustered in August 1862.

He was in action on South Mountain and was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was discharged for disability from wounds on 21 November 1862. He reenlisted 12 March 1864 in Company H, 59th Massachusetts Infantry, but the Adjutant General's record says he deserted (date not given) and did not return.

He was living in Hampton, NH in 1884. An Augustus H. Batchelder was listed as an entry clerk at Murphy, Grant & Co., San Francisco, CA in a City Directory of 1893. He may have been a resident of the Soldier's Home at Togus, ME by the time of his death in 1910.

Basic information from Carruth1. Details from George William Creasey's The City of Newburyport in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 (1903). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

04/02/1842; Newburyport, MA

04/15/1910; Togus, ME; burial in Togus National Cemetery, Togus, ME