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(1812 - 1873)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Giving his age as 44, he was 49, a machinist from Northbridge, he enlisted in Company H, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 12 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but was wounded and 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. He mustered out 28 July 1864.
References & notes
Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hannah Phillips (-1849) in August 1838 and they had 4 children. He married again, the widow Eunice Hagar Sawtell Smith (1811-1905) and they had a son Joel.
Birth
05/03/1812 in IRELAND
Death
11/03/1873; Northbridge, MA; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Northbridge, MA
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. 185 - 186 [AotW citation 5866]
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/p41.htm#i1281 [AotW citation 27734]