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(1842 - 1911)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old shoe cutter in East Bridgewater, he mustered as Corporal, Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May 1861. He was wounded in action at Savage's Station, VA on 29 June 1862.
On the Campaign
In action at Antietam on 17 September 1862:
Corporal Allen, who was likewise a well-drilled and gallant soldier, received a very dangerous wound in the head [scalp], from which he has never fully recovered.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 28 November 1862.
After the War
In 1870 he worked in a shoe factory in East Bridgewater, MA, and he was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post #212 there. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a traveling shoe salesmen.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 2 and the History,2 source of the quote above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Louise Howard (1848-1939) in November 1867 and they had 2 children.
Birth
02/15/1842; East Bridgewater, MA
Death
10/08/1911; East Bridgewater, MA; burial in Union Cemetery, East Bridgewater, MA
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 113 [AotW citation 16113]
2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 289 [AotW citation 20754]
3 Osborne, WIlliam H., The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Late War of the Rebellion, Boston: Albert J. Wright, printer, 1877, p. 194, note 38 [AotW citation 29914]