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Federal (USV)

Private

Timothy Merrow

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker on the Bates' place in Fairfield, ME. He enlisted on 5 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 arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 19 November 1863 to transfer to Cowan's Battery - the First Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery. He reenlisted on 22 December 1863 and was mortally wounded at Cedar Creek, VA on 19 October 1864. He died of wounds on 22 November.

References & notes

Antietam casualty information from Hyde,1 as Timothy Merro. His service from the Maine2 and New York3 Adjutants General, and the Maine Card File.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843; Fairfield, ME

Death

11/22/1864; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Fairfield, 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 6622]

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 29238]

3 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, pg. 186 [AotW citation 29239]

4 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 29240]

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