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(1806 - 1862)
Home State: New Hampshire
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A nearly 55 year old farmer in Plainfield, NH, giving his age as 44, he enlisted in Lebanon, NY as Private, Company F, 2nd US Sharpshooters on 12 October 1861 and mustered on 26 November.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 13 October 1862 at the Carver Hospital in Washington, DC.
References & notes
Service information from Ayling.1 Personal details from his widow's pension application, family genealogists, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eleanor Hunt (1812-1879) in October 1831 and they had 10 children by 1859.
Birth
10/20/1806; Peru, NY
Death
10/13/1862; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC
1 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 2, pg. 978 [AotW citation 25027]