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Federal (USV)

Musician

Roger B. Haines

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, a lumberman from Frederickton, New Brunswick, he enlisted as a Musician in Company A, 7th Maine Infantry on 13 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company K in 1863. He enlisted as a Musician in Company D, 2nd Battalion, 16th United States Infantry 27 January 1863 in Washington, DC, and reenlisted at the end of his original term of enlistment on 28 February 1864 at Tyner's Station, TN, but deserted on 29 April 1864.

After the War

He began receiving an invalid veteran's pension in April 1882.

References & notes

His wound from Hyde.1. Service information from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Registers.3

Birth

c. 1841; Frederickton, New Brunswick, CANADA

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6607]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 251 [AotW citation 29205]

3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 140, pp. 323, 339 [AotW citation 29206]

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