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Federal (USV)

Captain

Lewis E. Wentworth

Home State: Massachusetts

Command Billet: Commanding Detachment

Branch of Service: Sharpshooters

Unit: Massachusetts Sharpshooters, Second Company

Before Antietam

A 38 year old tinsmith in Salem, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company A, 5th Massachusetts Infantry (Militia) for 3 months service 19 March 1861, was promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 July, and mustered out 31 July 1861. He then mustered as Captain, 2nd Company Massachusetts Sharpshooters on 3 September 1861. He resigned on 16 July 1862 but was recommissioned on 20 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He resigned and was discharged on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

Service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.1

More on the Web

Journal of the 2nd Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Sharpshooters, 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.

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 1, pg. 271; Vol. 2, pg. 718  [AotW citation 20757]