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Federal (USV)

Private

Lawrence R. Blake

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old shoemaker in Plymouth, MA, and lived with his parents and younger brother George in Plymouth, MA. He enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered on 22 May as a Private in Captain Doten's Company, attached to the 3rd Massachusetts Infantry, which became Company E of the 29th Massachusetts Infantry by the end of 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty from Nelson.1 His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial on Findagrave suggests he was buried as an "unknown" in Antietam National Cemetery after the war, but that, by definition, cannot be proved.

Birth

05/06/1839; Duxbury, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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. 134 [AotW citation 16452]

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, p. 299 [AotW citation 29991]

3 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 29992]

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