Bruce Shipman

In 1860 he was a newly-married 20 year old farm worker on William Ayers' small place at Springfield Center, Otsego County, NY. He enlisted there on 1 November 1861 and mustered on 6 November as a Private in Company K, 76th New York Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland and was assigned to the division Ambulance Corps on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was paroled on the field and sent to a parole camp in Baltimore. He "left parole camp and went home" in August and was exchanged and returned to duty in October 1863. He transferred to Company H on 1 July 1864 and was discharged at the end of his 3 year term on 5 November 1864 near Petersburg, VA.

By 1865 and to at least 1880 he was a farm laborer back in Springfield, NY. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in December 1881. In 1900 he was a farmer in Burlington, NY but by 1910 was a common laborer in nearby Richland, NY.

His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and his Muster Roll Extract, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, the NY State Census of 1865, his US pension card, and a bio sketch by g-g-grandson Robert Moore, Jr., from the May 1996 issue of the Guidon, the newsletter of the Major Grover Civil War Roundtable. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a CDV (in his Ambulance Corps uniform) in the collection of the US Army Heritage & Education Center in Carlisle, PA; thanks to Dave Lay for the pointer to Shipman and a copy of that photograph.

He married Nancy M Keller (1844-1890) in 1860 and they had 7 children; 5 daughters, then 2 sons. Neither boy survived childhood. He married again, Frances Angermire (1850-1927) in September 1896.

08/26/1839; Springfield, NY

10/08/1927; Richfield Springs, NY; burial in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield Center, NY