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(1818 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 41 year old dresser tender (yarn winding machine operator) in Swansea/Pawtucket, MA, and on 20 November 1861 he enlisted and mustered there as a Private in Company G, 29th Massachusetts Infantry. He was wounded on the Peninsular Campaign in June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of infection from his wound at 2:30 am on 20 November 1862 in the convalescent camp at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound basics from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Joanna Northam Lawton (1820-1892) in September 1847 in Swansea, MA and they had 5 children.
Birth
12/25/1818; Blackburn, Lancashire, ENGLAND
Death
11/20/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Pawtucket, RI
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. 312 [AotW citation 20141]
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 29964]
3 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. 197 [AotW citation 20142]