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(1840 - 1910)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer in Bath, MD. He gave his occupation as fisherman when he enlisted on 1 August 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
Color Corporal at Antietam, he was wounded slightly in the knee in action there on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 14 December 1863. He was missing in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 18 May 1864 and transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864. He mustered out on 28 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a fisherman at Westport, Clatsop County, OR. In 1880 he was a salmon canner in Minneapolis, MN living with his father Owen, a wood dealer there, and in 1900 he was back in Clatsop County, OR; a "cannery man" there.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Crossman Timmings. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his name as Timmons, a spelling he apparently started using after about 1880. His burial place also given as Averill Pioneer Cemetery (Bandon) or Coquille Pioneer Cemetery (Coquille) in Oregon.
He married Rebecca Jane "Jeanie" Rich (1847-1923) in October 1880 and they had 2 children.
Birth
03/1840; Sagadahoc County, ME
Death
03/02/1910; in OR; burial in Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, Bandon, OR
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6617]
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. 256 [AotW citation 29243]
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 29244]