(1839 - 1895)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Known by Merrill, he was about 22 and living in Bath when he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 29 May 1863.
After the War
He was a truant officer in Garner, ME by 1892 and to at least 1894.
References & notes
His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2 Personal details from the Gardiner Mayor's Annual Reports of 1892 and 1894, and family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Merrill Enos Tobey. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Edgecomb (1832-1907).
Birth
07/10/1839; Whitefield, ME
Death
06/04/1895; South Gardiner, ME; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, South Gardiner, 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 6618]
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 [AotW citation 27844]