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(1829 - 1888)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 31 year old blacksmith in Bath, ME. He enlisted on 7 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was listed as missing in action on 4 May 1863 (Chancellorsville, VA?) and returned to duty on 23 October. He reenlisted on 14 December 1863 and transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August (or 20 September) 1864. He mustered out with them on 28 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a blacksmith back in Bath, ME. In 1880 he was a night watchman there.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 with his service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as John F Skofield.
He married Caroline S Fowle (1829-1911) in December 1851 and they had 7 children.
Birth
02/13/1829; Bath, ME
Death
12/18/1888; Boston, MA; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, 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 6616]
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 29241]
3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29242]