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(1840 - 1914)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, from Tremont, he enlisted as Private, Company D, 10th Maine Infantry on 25 September and mustered on 4 October 1861. He was wounded in the arm in action at Cedar Mountain, VA on 8 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was absent wounded to at least 2 November 1862, when he was listed absent without leave. He enlisted as Private, Company C, 15th Maine Infantry on 12 January 1863. He was wounded and captured in action, probably at Pleasant Hill, LA, on 9 April 1864, and mustered out of service on 5 July 1866.
After the War
He applied for an invalid pension on 7 November 1865, which was granted.
References & notes
Birth
01/04/1840; Gardiner, ME
Death
01/07/1914; burial in Maine Avenue Cemetery, Farmingdale, ME
1 Gould, John Mead, History of the First - Tenth - Twenty-ninth Maine regiment, Portland: Stephen Berry, 1871, pp. 194, 260 [AotW citation 17446]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 273 [AotW citation 17447]