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Federal (USV)

Private

Horace Ross

(c. 1842 - 1911)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an unmarried 19 year old farmer from Bowdoinham, ME when he enlisted on 12 August and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He began receiving an invalid veteran's pension in September 1864.

After the War

He was probably living in Detroit, MI by 1867 and from 1880 to at least 1900 was a laborer there. He had retired in Detroit by 1910.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Powers (1847-1911) and they had 11 children between 1867 and 1888.

Birth

c. 1842; Bowdoin, ME

Death

06/21/1911; Detroit, MI; burial in Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, MI

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 6635]

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. 261 [AotW citation 29263]

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 29264]

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