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(1839 - 1911)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
One of 14 siblings (10 at home) in 1860, he was a 21 year old farm worker on his parents farm in Winn, ME. He gave his occupation as lumberman when he enlisted on 9 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right ankle and leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 27 February 1863.
After the War
He was a stonecutter in Winn, ME to 15 January 1877 when he was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, OH. He was there to 31 May 1877.
He was admitted to the Home at Fort Lavenworth, KS on 15 January 1897 and lived there for an unknown period. In 1900 he was a stone mason in Joplin, MO. He was admitted to the Home at Fort Leavenworth again on 18 December 1907 and died there on 29 January 1911.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1900, and 1910, and the Registers of the US National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, online thanks to Family Search. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
01/1839 in ME
Death
01/31/1911; Fort Leavenworth, KS; burial in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, KS
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6627]
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 29245]
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 29246]