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(1839 - 1915)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old laborer living with his widowed mother and siblings in West Minot, ME. He enlisted on 12 August and mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in both legs in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to Company F, date not given, and was discharged for disability on 8 May 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was a teamster in Portland, ME. In 1900 he was an expressman in Malden, MA.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as George D. Saunders. His service from the Card File 2 and the Adjutant General.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eunice Coolbroth Randall (1835-1912) in November 1865 and they had a daughter Lena Augusta (1869-1910).
Birth
05/14/1839; Malden, MA
Death
02/10/1915; West Minot, ME; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, 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 6634]
2 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 29265]
3 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. 268 [AotW citation 29266]