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Federal (USV)

Private

David H. Lincoln

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old shoemaker in East Bridgewater. He enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered as Private, Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds and typhoid fever on 21 September 1862 in the field hospital on the Pry Farm near Keedysville, MD.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Central Cemetery, East Bridgewater, MA is on Findagrave.

His sister Emily Jane married another Company C soldier and Antietam survivor, Henry A Osborne after the war.

Birth

1836; East Bridgewater, MA

Death

09/21/1862; Keedysville, 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. 291 [AotW citation 20143]

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