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(c. 1842 - 1862)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old seaman from Portland, ME, he enlisted on 6 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds on 28 September 1862 and was buried on the field.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as James Johnson and his death on 17 September. Service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Wound detail from Nelson,4 who cites a newspaper reference that he was treated at Franklin Hall in Chambersburg, PA. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1842; Liverpool, ENGLAND
Death
09/28/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3687]
2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 183 [AotW citation 20821]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29301]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 264 [AotW citation 29302]