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(1839 - 1872)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old fisherman, like his father, and lived with his parents and 3 siblings in Swampscott, MA. He enlisted in Lynn on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 14 May.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the finger or hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability at Lincoln Hospital in Washington, DC on 26 February 1863; he had a varicocele (blood pooling in his scrotum) on his left side "said to be the result of injury received on fatigue duty in Virginia."
After the War
By 1865 he was a shoemaker back in Swampscott, living with his recently widowed mother and younger siblings. In 1870, still a shoemaker, he lived in a boarding house in Marblehead. He died unmarried at age 32 years, 8 months, and 19 days, of consumption (tuberculosis).
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound detail also in Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1870, the Massachusetts Census of 1865, and his death record, source of his age at death. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
04/25/1839; Marblehead, MA
Death
01/13/1872; Marblehead, MA; burial in Waterside Cemetery, Marblehead, 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. 323 [AotW citation 29972]
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 29973]
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. 224 [AotW citation 29974]