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(1837 - 1862)
Home State: Michigan
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old living with his parents and siblings on their farm at Williamston in Ingham County, MI. He enlisted for 3 months' service as Private, Company A, 16th Ohio Infantry on 10 May 1861 and was discharged on 18 August in Cleveland, OH. He enlisted again, in Dansville, Ingham County, MI as a Private in Company I, First United States Sharpshooters on 20 December 1861. He was promoted to First Sergeant in 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in a skirmish at Boteler's Ford on the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, VA on 19 September 1862; he was hit by a gunshot while he was wading the river.
References & notes
His service from Stevens,1 the Ohio Roster,2 and the Michigan Adjutant General.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Fairview Cemetery, Dansville, MI is on Findagrave.
His brother Walden W Raymond (1840-1917) was a Sergeant in the 7th Michigan Cavalry.
Birth
05/24/1837; Dexter, MI
Death
09/19/1862; near Shepherdstown, VA
1 Stevens, Charles Augustus, Berdan's United States Sharpshooters in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, St. Paul (MN): The Price-McGill Company, 1892, pg. 210 [AotW citation 26146]
2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95 [AotW citation 26147]
3 State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915 [AotW citation 26148]