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(1842 - 1918)
Home State: Maine
Education: Medical School of Maine (at Bowdoin College), Class of 1878
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old shoemaker from Buckfield, he enlisted on 7 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal by December 1861, then Sergeant, and First Sergeant, dates not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 5 April l863.
After the War
In 1865 he was a moulder in Cambridge, MA, but he graduated from medical school in 1878 and by 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a physician in Westbrook, ME.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Albert K. Burroughs. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the Massachusetts State Census of 1865, the US Census of 1880-1910, the Catalog of the Medical School of Maine (1878), and his memorial in the Proceedings of the Masonic Order (1918). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Caroline Francis Gerrish (1845-1907) in 1865; Dr. Frederick Henry Gerrish (1845-1920, relation?) was an instructor at the Medical School of Maine and Albert's preceptor there. He married again, Sarah Adeline Ray (1866-1954) in June 1909.
More on the Web
His wartime belt buckle is in the collection of the Maine Historical Society.
Birth
10/16/1842; Houlton, ME
Death
09/13/1918; Westbrook, ME; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Westbrook, 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 6632]
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. 260 [AotW citation 29256]
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 29257]