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(1833 - 1903)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America between 1855 and 1858, and was a 29 year old machine operator in Newburyport, MA, when he enrolled as a Private in Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry in August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot to his face ...
destroying his left eye and ear.
The rest of the War
He was sent to the Camden Street US Army Hospital in Baltimore on 20 September and was discharged there on 26 November 1862 with vertigo and impaired vision of his right eye. He began receiving a disability pension in December 1862.
His regiment listed him a deserter by May 1863 and he was arrested in July, but released when he produced his discharge (charge of desertion removed in 1873).
After the War
By 1870 he was working in a woolen mill in Providence, RI and in 1880 in a cotton mill in Sturbridge, MA, but was back in Providence by 1884. He was still there at the 1890 US Veteran's Census.
References & notes
His service information from Carruth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, source of the quote above, from his Certificate of Disability. Wound and hospital details also in the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His records are mixed with those of Jonathan Senior (1819 - 1876) also of Company B, possibly his uncle.
He married Margaret Hindle (1834-1895) and they had as many as 11 children between 1855 and 1876.
Birth
03/14/1833; Batley, Yorkshire, ENGLAND
Death
10/08/1903; Providence, RI; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Cranston, RI
1 Carruth, Sumner, and others of the Committee of the Regimental Association, History of the Thirty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865, Boston: Mills, Knight & Company, 1884, Roster, pp. 16 - 17 [AotW citation 15109]
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 31406]
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 1, p. 341 [AotW citation 31407]