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(c. 1824 - 1869)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 37 year old machinist in Somerville (or Boston), MA, he enlisted and mustered as a Sergeant in Company F, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 23 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 1 January 1864, as First Sergeant. He was commissioned First Lieutenant on 1 July 1864 (mustered on 12 October) and mustered out on 29 July 1865.
After the War
He was an engineer in Somerville but died at age 42 at the Boston City Hospital in October 1869.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the Massachusetts State Census of 1865.
He married Margaret Littlefield (1825-1865) in August 1845 and they had 3 children. He married again, the widow Almena/Amelia H Jones Cotter (1830-1907) in November 1865, who had 4 children of her own, and they had a son Charles Jones King.
Birth
c. 1824; Providence, RI
Death
10/06/1869; 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. 307 [AotW citation 29953]
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 29954]