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(1842 - 1875)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old coffee roaster in Boston, he enlisted and mustered in Boston as a Private in what became Company A, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 21 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His arm was partially amputated on the field on 17 September. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 19 September, a second amputation was performed by Assistant Surgeon W.S. Adams on 3 October, and he was discharged for wounds there on 20 December 1862.
After the War
By 1866 he was in San Francisco, CA. In 1870 he was a "W.S. Inspector" there.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists, his San Francisco voter registration (July 1866), and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite in the National Cemetery is on Findagrave; he may also have a stone in
Greenlawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA ("Removed from Odd Fellows Cemetery San Francisco").
He married Annaleisi Harwood (1844-1928) and they had 3 children between 1868 and 1872.
Birth
1842; Prince Edward Island, CANADA
Death
02/16/1875; burial in San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
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, p. 282 [AotW citation 29893]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29894]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.189 [AotW citation 29895]
4 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. 757 [AotW citation 29896]