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(c. 1847 - 1864)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and 5 of his 12 siblings in Charlestown, MA. He enlisted there on 5 November 1861 and mustered as a Musician (drummer) in Company H, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 23 December.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the Division hospital in Dennison, OH on 27 August 1863 with intermittent fever and was discharged from the regiment there for disability for "extreme youth [being then only about 15 years of age] and broken down constitution" on 22 October 1863.
He enlisted again on 30 April 1864 as a drummer in the 7th Unattached Company, Massachusetts Infantry (also known as Company G of the 42nd Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia) for 90 days local service on the Massachusetts coast. He mustered-in on 4 May but died of "congestion of the lungs" in Charlestown on 20 May 1864, age 16.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1847; East Cambridge, MA
Death
05/20/1864; Charlestown, MA; burial in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, 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. 316 [AotW citation 29965]
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 29966]
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. 212 [AotW citation 29967]