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Federal (USV)

Private

Addison H. Grant

(1843 - 1864)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old worker on his parents' farm in Frankfort, ME. He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by a gunshot in the side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and transferred elsewhere on 20 December 1862. He was discharged for disability on 10 February 1863, but reenlisted in the 7th Maine in January 1864. He was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 18 May 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 Service information from the Maine Adjutant General.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1843; Frankfort, ME

Death

05/18/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Winterport, ME

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 6620]

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 29216]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.879 [AotW citation 29341]

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