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(1832 - 1893)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 29 year old shoemaker in East Bridgewater, he enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and he mustered in as a Private in Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1861 and was wounded at Savage's Station, VA on 29 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded again, in the right foot, in action at Antietam on 16 September 1862:
On the morning of the 16th, our army was well up towards the creek, with well-formed lines. Pettit’s battery was relieved in the forenoon by another of twelve 20-pounder Parrotts; and these our Brigade supported all day. The enemy had almost exact range of our position, but his shell not exploding, did little execution. There was, however, some loss, and Corporal Tribou of Company C (Twenty-ninth), who carried the State colors, was severely wounded, losing his left [right] foot above the ankle.
The rest of the War
His foot was amputated the next day by his regimental surgeon G.B. Cogswell and he was treated at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield until he was discharged for wounds on 13 January 1863.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1 his Compiled Service Records,2 also as Daniel W. Tribon (a common mis-transcription in other records as well), online from fold3, and the History,3 source of the quote above. Wound and hospital details from Nelson4 and the MSHWR.5 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth Clarinda Shute (1849-1914) in March 1867 and they had 8 children.
Birth
04/29/1832; East Bridgewater, MA
Death
05/29/1893; Plymouth, MA; burial in Sagamore Cemetery, Bourne, 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, p. 294 [AotW citation 29906]
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 29907]
3 Osborne, WIlliam H., The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Late War of the Rebellion, Boston: Albert J. Wright, printer, 1877, p. 183-184 [AotW citation 29910]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 416 [AotW citation 29909]
5 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 3, p. 501 [AotW citation 29908]