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Federal (USV)

Private

Richard Keating

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old worker on his parent's modest farm in Houlton, ME. He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 7th Maine Infantry on 13 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company D and was reported a deserter on 12 May 1863, with no later record.

References & notes

His wound from Hyde.1. Service information from the Maine Adjutant General.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1841; 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 6609]

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 29207]

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