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(c. 1840 - 1887)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, a blacksmith, he enlisted on 1 October 1861 in Houlton, ME as a Private in Company D, 17th United States Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His right forearm was amputated and he was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital near Keedysville. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 27 September and sent on to Baltimore on 31 October. He was discharged for disability on 12 December 1862 at Philadelphia.
After the War
In 1870 he was unemployed and lived in Lewiston, ME. In 1880 his wife worked in a cotton mill, and they lived in a boarding house there.
References & notes
Wound and hospital details from Nelson1 and the Patient List.2 His service and personal details from the Registers.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married and had a son, Johnson (1866-1920). He married again, the widow Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" McMaster Ryerson (1849-) in September 1870 and they had 3 more children.
Birth
c. 1840; St. Johns, New Brunswick, CANADA
Death
01/12/1887; Lewiston, ME; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Lewiston, ME
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. 139 [AotW citation 16543]
2 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 #534 [AotW citation 31183]
3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, p. 66 [AotW citation 31184]