(1836 - 1862)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 24, from Dresden, he mustered as Sergeant, Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 22 August 1861. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 186 at Antietam.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde1. Service from the Adjutant General.2 Birth details from descendants Kristiana and Bill Silver. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
12/22/1836; Dresden, ME
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Courthouse Cemetery, Dresden, 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 6630]
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, pg. 174 [AotW citation 20803]