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H.H. Kalloch

H.H. Kalloch

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry Hudson Kalloch

(1837 - 1866)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

At age 23, from Ashland, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 10th Maine Infantry on 4 October 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 6 February and Sergeant on 1 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Sergeant 1 January 1863. By the end of 1863 he was in command of his Company as senior man present. He reenlisted in March 1864 and transferred with the Company to the 10th Maine Battalion, then 29th Infantry in May 1864. He was slightly wounded in the face in action at Cedar Creek, VA on 19 October 1864. He was appointed First Lieutenant, Company D, 29th Maine Infantry on 11 December 1864, and Captain on 17 January 1865. He was resigned and was discharged for disability to date from 11 October 1865.

After the War

He died not long after discharge, age 28.

References & notes

Service from Gould's History,1 source also of his picture. Gould has him as Henry Harrison Kallock. Details also from the Maine Adjutant General's Annual Report (1863). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/26/1837; China, ME

Death

07/04/1866; Ashland, ME; burial in Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, ME

Notes

1   Gould, John Mead, History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine regiment, Portland: Stephen Berry, 1871, pp. 352, 652  [AotW citation 17419]