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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Elijah H. Tolman

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old moulder in East Bridgewater, MA. He enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered on 22 May as a Private in Company L, 4th Massachusetts Infantry, which became C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died the following day.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1 which says he was killed outright on 17 September, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

05/16/1839; East Bridgewater, MA

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 294 [AotW citation 20137]

2 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 29990]

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