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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Cadret

(c. 1832 - 1864)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 29, a shoemaker from Boylestown, he enlisted in Company D, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 1 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was initially reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was actually captured there.

The rest of the War

He was a prisoner in Richmond, then a paroled prisoner in the camp at Annapolis, MD by 15 October 1862, but deserted on 1 May 1863 from Falmouth, VA.

He enlisted again, on 9 January 1864, as a Private in the 3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery under the name Andrew Barney. He was mortally wounded, data and place not given, and died on 2 June 1864 at Fortress Monroe, VA.

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2

He married Felecia Lafleur (c. 1832-) and they had 3 children between 1853 and 1857.

Birth

c. 1832 in CANADA

Death

06/02/1864; Fortress Monroe, VA

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. 2, pp. 155 - 160 [AotW citation 5699]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /ma15mvi/Roster/p20.htm#i582 [AotW citation 27741]

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