Frederick A. Seymour

He had Militia experience before the war and in 1860 was a 40 year old potter in Ravenna, Portage County, OH. He was commissioned Captain of Company G, 7th Ohio Infantry for 3 months service on 23 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 14 June. He was appointed Captain of the same Company for a 3 year term on 14 June 1861.

He assumed command of the Regiment at Antietam after the next senior officer, Major Crane, took charge of the Tyndale's Brigade.

He resigned his commission on 17 April 1863. He reenrolled, as Major of the 7th Ohio Infantry, on 13 August 1863 but again resigned, on 29 March 1864.

In 1870 he was a farmer in West Hartford, CT. By 1900 he had retired there.

His service from the Roster 1. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his middle name as Alexander, and the US Census of 1860, 1870, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elvira Curtis (1834-) in February 1852 and they had a son Nathan.

03/12/1819; Hartford, CT

09/04/1903; Hartford, CT; burial in North Cemetery, West Hartford, CT