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(1841 - 1924)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
He graduated from the Berwick Academy in 1856. From South Berwick, by then age 20, he mustered as Sergeant, Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He transferred to Company D when "F" was disbanded, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, although thought to have been killed.
The rest of the War
He was back with his Company by 1864 and mustered out that year at the expiration of his term of service.
After the War
He was living in South Berwick to at least 1873, then in Peabody, MA by 1893 and was listed as a mail carrier there.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 Service from the Adjutant General.2 Both list him as killed in action at Antietam. Later service from the AG's Annual Report for 1864-65 (1866). Details from family genealogists and the Peabody City Directories for 1893-94 and later years. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Fanny E. Doherty (1848-1922) in 1868 and they had three children together.
Birth
08/29/1841; South Berwick, ME
Death
05/21/1924; Peabody, MA; burial in Saint Mary Cemetery, Danvers, MA
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6633]
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. 178 [AotW citation 20804]