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(c. 1840 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 21 year old shoemaker from Webster, he enlisted in Company I, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 15 May 1861. He was captured at Balls Bluff, VA on 21 October 1861, was a prisoner in Richmond, VA, and returned to duty about March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the hospital in Smoketown, MD. He wrote his new wife from there on 21 October:
... I am yet in the land of the living, although suffering a severe wound received in the Battle of Antietam. I was struck by a ball in the right thigh, close to the hip joint, the ball passing through the limb, fracturing the bone, and has proved very painful, but is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.However, he did not recover and he died at Smoketown of wounds on 14 November 1862. His letter reached his wife the day after he died.
After the War
He was initially buried near the hospital but was reinterred at the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Service information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,2 as Henry Bullen. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 The quote above from his letter to his wife of 21 October 1862, online from Susan L. Harnwell at her massive 15th Massachusetts Infantry 4 site. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah C. Paul (-1879) in March 1862; they had no children.
Birth
c. 1840; Suffield, VT
Death
11/14/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
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. 190 - 191 [AotW citation 5907]
2 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3266]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 151 [AotW citation 25071]
4 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: /Roster/p19.htm#i1414 [AotW citation 25072]