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(1833 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 26 year old teamster in Randolph, MA. He enlisted 21 July 1862 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company E, 35th Massachusetts Infantry on 19 August.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 by a gunshot to his right shoulder which "carried away" much of the head of his humerus (upper arm bone).
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Mt. Pleasant Hospital in Washington, DC where Assistant Surgeon C.A. McCall removed the head and an inch of the shaft of his humerus on 21 October. He died there of infection on 3 November 1862.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1 Wound and medical details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Frances Eliza Mead (1833-1915) in April 1854 and they had 6 children; the last, daughter Jennie, born after his death.
Birth
08/20/1833; Chesterfield, NH
Death
11/03/1862; Washington, DC; burial in Central Cemetery, Randolph, MA
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. 673 [AotW citation 20476]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 596 [AotW citation 33106]