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(1843 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old clerk living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and siblings in Melrose, MA. He was a clerk with E.W. Wheelock & Company, a "dealer in tailor's trimmings" in Boston when he enlisted there on 28 July 1862. He mustered on 4 August 1862 as a Private in Company A of the 13th Massachusetts Infantry. He had served briefly in Company A of the 4th Battalion, Massachusetts Infantry, but they were never mustered for war service.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action - "shot directly through the heart" (or forehead) - at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried on the field, but his family had his remains recovered and reinterred in Melrose on 29 September 1862.
References & notes
Birth
12/13/1843 in MA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Wyoming Cemetery, Melrose, 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. II, pp. 72 - 130 [AotW citation 2885]