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A.H. Quint

A.H. Quint

Federal (USV)

Chaplain

Alonzo Hall Quint

(1828 - 1896)

Home State: Massachusetts

Education: Dartmouth College (1846, D.D. 1866),
Andover Theological Seminary , Class of 1852

Branch of Service: Chaplain

Unit: 2nd Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

He was ordained in December 1853 and was pastor of Mather Congregational Church at Jamaica Plain, Boston at the start of the war. He took a leave of absence and mustered as Chaplain of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry on 20 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was with his regiment in Maryland and visited with wounded soldiers on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and afterward.

The rest of the War

"In the Atlanta Campaign, partly by advice of surgeon, and partly from other considerations, availed himself of the opportunity to be mustered out" on 25 May 1864, the end of his original term of enlistment, then at Chattanooga, TN.

After the War

He returned to Massachusetts and took the pastorate of the North Congregational Church in New Bedford in July 1864. By 1880 he was living in Dover, NH and he began receiving a disability pension from his war service in September 1890.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from a bio sketch in his own Record,2 also quoted above, from family genealogists, and from the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from an etching after a photograph in his Record.

He married Rebecca Page Putnam (1829-1913) and they had 6 children.

More on the Web

The Library of Congress hosts an excellent copy of Quint's The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry (1867) online.

Birth

03/22/1828; Barnstead, NH

Death

11/04/1896; Boston, MA; burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH

Notes

1   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 33099]

2   Quint, Alonzo Hall, The Record of the Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, Boston: James P. Walker, 1867, pp. 480, facing page (image)  [AotW citation 33100]