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(1842 - 1895)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old glass maker in Sandwich, MA living with his mother and 4 siblings, all glass makers. He enlisted in Sandwich on 18 May 1861 and mustered in as a Musician (bugler) in what became Company D, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the hip or thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
By December 1862 he was acting chief bugler for the regiment. On 29 January 1864 he was transferred to Company A of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry and was detailed as bugler at brigade headquarters. He was discharged at the end of the term of his enlistment on 18 May 1864.
After the War
By 1875 he was a glass blower in Corning, NY going by Benjamin Dalton, and was still at that trade but in Philadelphia, PA by 1880. He was a 52 year old glassblower living on Beacon Street in Boston at his death in 1895.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 also as Benjamin C. Dalton, online from fold3. Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1880, and the New York State Census of 1875.
He married Hannah McAvoy (1852-) and they had as many as 9 children by 1894; their two youngest, a boy and a girl, died as infants in Boston in 1893.
Birth
02/16/1842; Sandwich, MA
Death
05/18/1895; Boston, MA; burial in Boston, 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. 296, 713 [AotW citation 29939]
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 29940]
3 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. 181 [AotW citation 29941]