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(1840 - 1900)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was 20 years old and lived in physician William E Payne's household in Bath, ME. He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 14 December 1864 and transferred to Company G of the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864. He mustered out with them on 28 June 1865.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Calvin Elders. Service information from the Maine Adjutant General,2 as John C. Elders. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as John C Elder.
He married Naomi W. Mitchell in January 1864 in Bath.
Birth
04/08/1840; Belfast, ME
Death
09/22/1900; Bangor, ME; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, ME
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6615]
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. 253 [AotW citation 29215]