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(1832 - 1909)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 28 year old farm worker at Hillsborough, NH. He enlisted there on 25 March 1862 as a Private in Company F, 17th United States Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to the vertex - the top of his skull - in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital near Keedysville, then sent on to hospitals in Washington, DC and Baltimore. He was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863 and began receiving a veteran's disability pension in May 1863.
After the War
A Pension Examining Surgeon reported in September 1866 that he had continuous pain at the wound site, a "very irritable temper, and impaired memory." By 1870 he was a lumber dealer in Deering, Hillsborough County, NH and in 1890 he was in Bradford, Merrimack County, NH.
References & notes
Wound and hospital details from Nelson1 and the MSHWR.2 His service and other details from the Registers.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, and the 1890 US Census of Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lucinda Manahan (1822-1890) in November 1858 and they had 2 sons, Walter and George.
Birth
05/06/1832; Erndon, ME
Death
10/30/1910; Bradford, NH; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Bradford, NH
1 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. 448 [AotW citation 31185]
2 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 1, p. 107 [AotW citation 31186]
3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142/143, p. 929 [AotW citation 31187]