Lewis E. Wentworth

In 1860 he was a 36 year old stove dealer (and tinsmith by trade) in Salem, MA. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 5th Massachusetts Infantry (Militia) for 3 months service on 19 March 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 July, and mustered out on 31 July. He then enrolled again, at Lynnfield, MA on 3 September and mustered the same day as Captain of the 2nd Company, Massachusetts Sharpshooters. He was sick in the division's hospital at Yorktown, VA from April 1862 into June, and resigned due to illness and was discharged on 16 July at Baltimore, MD. However he was recommissioned on 20 August in Boston and rejoined his company at Hall's Hill, VA near Washington, DC on 5 or 6 September.

He commanded the Sharpshooters, attached to the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry on the Maryland Campaign.

He was sick again and in a hospital by April 1863 and resigned and was discharged near Falmouth, VA on 18 May 1863.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 (though then listed as a "superannuated preacher") he was a Methodist clergyman in Clinton, Kennebec County, ME, his wife's hometown.

His service basics from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, with birth also in New Hampshire or Maine. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary L. Hawes (c. 1827-) in September 1846.

The Journal of the 2nd Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Sharpshooters (1861-63), thought for some years to have been written by Wentworth but probably by a member of his Company instead, is in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

07/13/1823; Roxbury, MA

06/14/1900; Clinton, ME; burial in Riverview Cemetery, Clinton, ME