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Federal (USV)

Private

Jonathan Senior

(1819 - 1876)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 41 year old dresser (machine operator) in a textile mill in Newburyport, MA. He enlisted there on 6 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot which "carried off his right index finger."

The rest of the War

He was sent to the Camden Street US Army Hospital in Baltimore on 20 September and was discharged there for disability from wounds on 26 November (or 13 January 1863), his "stump healed."

After the War

By 1870 he was back in Newburyport working in a cotton mill.

References & notes

His service from Carruth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His records are mixed with those of John Senior (1833 - 1903) also of Company B, possibly his nephew.

He married Sarah Clegg (1824-) and they had a son Levi (1849-1918).

Birth

10/23/1819; Yorkshire, ENGLAND

Death

04/03/1876; Newburyport, MA; burial in Highland Cemetery, Newburyport, MA

Notes

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 15110]

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 31408]

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