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(1843 - ?)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
An 18 year old nailer in Fall River, MA, he enlisted and mustered in Assomet on 7 November 1861 as a Private in Company F, 29th Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded at Savage Station, VA on 29 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded again, by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. The bullet entered near his right shoulder blade, ran along his spine, and exited from the left side of his chest near the top of his left arm.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 22 September and sent on to the Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria, VA on 29 September. He was discharged there for disability from his Antietam wound on 20 November 1862.
He enlisted again, as a Musician in Company A, 13th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 6 August 1864 in Boston. He was a Musician in the 6th Independent Company, VRC when he mustered out on 31 August 1866.
After the War
By 1870 he was an iron worker in Lawrence, MA. He was a prisoner in the County Jail there in 1880, occupation still listed as iron worker. He enrolled as a resident at the US National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, ME on 21 July 1885. He was there initially to March 1886, again from June-December 1888, and from September 1889 to March 1897. In 1900 he lived in a boarding house in Manchester, NH and was an iron moulder.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Hospital details also from the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists, the Registers of the Togus Home, and the US Census of 1870-1900.
He married Ellen "Nellie" McCane (1850-) by 1870 and they had at least 2 children.
Birth
07/23/1843; Fall River, 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. 136 [AotW citation 16487]
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. 304; Vol. 6, p. 134 [AotW citation 29962]
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 29963]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #257 [AotW citation 29995]