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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Orin S. Howard

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 32 year old contractor in Detroit, MI. He enlisted on 18 April 1861 as a Sergeant in Company A, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 11 November. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company D on 4 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland but was sent to command Company B after their Captain was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 28 January 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from the State Roster1, with Antietam detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote to a friend at home on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Frances Stead Gillet (1828-1905) and they had 3 children between 1856 and 1862.

Birth

c. 1828 in NY

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 387, 399 [AotW citation 34309]

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