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(1840 - 1915)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 21 year old farmer in Sandwich (or Winchendon), MA, he enlisted there on 3 November 1861 and mustered in as a Private in Company D, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 13 November in Boston.
On the Campaign
He suffered a flesh wound from a piece of shell to his scalp in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital #8 at Camp "A" in Frederick, MD on 4 October 1862 and returned to duty on 4 March 1863. After June 1863 he was absent, sick, in hospitals in Cincinnati, OH and Nashville, TN. He was administratively transferred on 30 January 1864 to Company D of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry but was still in hospitals, in KY and IN, probably until he was mustered out on 2 September 1864 at the expiration of his enlistment.
After the War
In 1865 he was a laborer in Yarmouth, MA, but by 1880 was a railroad brakeman (later baggage master) living in Framingham, MA. By 1910 he'd retired there. He was living in Hopedale, MA at the time of his death at age 75 in 1915.
References & notes
Casualty basics from Nelson,1 with hospital detail from the Patient List.2 His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 3 and his Compiled Service Records,4 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1880-1910, and the Massachusetts Census of 1865.
He married Mary E Knights (1842-1868) in November 1861 and they had twins Frank and Nellie in July 1862. He married again, Georgiana Frances "Georgie" Sawtelle (1846-1913) in December 1875 and they had a daughter, Emmabell (1887-1969).
Birth
06/13/1840; Sandwich, MA
Death
08/28/1915; Westborough, 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. 147 [AotW citation 16964]
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 #443 [AotW citation 29942]
3 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. 295, 726 [AotW citation 29943]
4 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 29944]