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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Moses W. McKay

(c. 1820 - 1875)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 40 year old lumberman in Old Town, Penobscot County, ME. He enlisted on 17 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant in 1863. He transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864 and mustered out on 5 September 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a laborer in East Saginaw, MI but by 1875 he was living in Anoka, MN.

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 and 1870, and the Minnesota State Census of 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Delilah C Glover (1837-1915) in June 1854 in Maine and they had 2 sons, George and Charles.

Birth

c. 1820; New Brunswick, CANADA

Death

09/28/1875; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Anoka, MN

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 6629]

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 29247]

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 29248]