Horace Eugene Page

In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his father Madison, a coal merchant, and 3 brothers in Brooklyn, NY. On 27 March 1862, giving his age as 18 (he was 16), a "scholar," he enlisted for three years as a Private in Company F, 11th United States Infantry in Boston, MA. He was described as being 5 feet 3 inches tall with hazel eyes, brown hair and dark complexion.

He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was captured, place and date not given, and held at Andersonville and Savannah, GA and at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA. He was discharged at the expiration of his enlistment on 27 March 1865 at Burkesville, VA.

In May 1865 he was in Cambridge, MA, still listed as a soldier. He served briefly in the Brazillian Navy and on a steamship of the Old Dominion Line. He returned to the US in about 1867 and for most of the rest of his life he lived in Paterson, NJ and was an engineer on the Erie Railroad. In 1905 he was living in Passaic, but by June 1915 he was a resident of the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers & Sailors in Kearny, NJ. He died there at age 70 on 9 February 1916.

His service from the Register.1 His presence at Antietam and other details from his obituary in the Paterson Morning Call of 9 February 1916. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, the Massachusetts Census of 1865, and the New Jersey Census of 1905 and 1915. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Tom DeNardo for the pointer to Page.

He married Mary Ann Marion (1850-1888) in December 1868 and they had 10 children by 1887; at least 4 died as infants. He married again, Elizabeth Ackerman (1834-) in October 1888.

09/21/1845; Chelsea, MA

02/09/1916; Kearny, NJ; burial in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, NJ