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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Page

(c. 1839 - 1911)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his parents' place at West Gardiner, ME. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 20 December 1861 (or 13 August 1862).

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 13 April 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a laborer in Belfast, ME. By 1900 he was a farmer there.

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 1860, 1870, and 1900.

He married Rhoda A. Hutchins (1836-?) in November 1864.

His brother Dexter W Page (1833-1906) was also in Company D.

Birth

c. 1839; West Gardiner, ME

Death

05/09/1911; Belfast, ME; burial in Belfast, ME

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 6637]

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 29258]

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 29259]

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