Myla Seamens Converse

Son of a farmer, in 1861 he was an 18 year old weaver (operative) in S. S. Slater and Son's woolen mill at Webster, Worchester County, MA. He enlisted there on 15 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 8 August. He was wounded in the leg and hand in action at Fair Oaks, VA on 31 May 1862 and was in a hospital in Philadelphia and afterward on furlough home.

He returned to duty with his company at Sharpsburg, MD on 18 September 1862.

He was "dropped from the rolls" of the 15th Infantry having enlisted as a Private in Company E, First United States Cavalry on 27 December 1862. He (and they) went south with General Sheridan at the end of the war and he mustered out at the end of his enlistment in New Orleans on 17 December 1865, by then a Sergeant.

By 1870 he was back working in a woolen mill in Webster, MA by by 1880 he was a farmer at Lake Eunice in Becker County, MN. In 1900 he was in the real estate business in Detroit, MN.

His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,1 as Milo S. Converse, his Compiled Service Records,2 as Mylo S Converse, online from fold3, and the Registers.3 Further details and his arrival at Sharpsburg from Susan's Harnwell's extraordinary 15th Massachusetts site. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Emerson (1846-1881) in November 1866 and they had 2 sons; he named their first Philip Sheridan Converse (1871-1939). He married again, Grace Elizabeth Nuttell (1842-1918) in June 1883.

03/19/1843; Schroon Falls, NY

11/09/1905; Detroit Lakes, MN; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Detroit Lakes, MN