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(1839 - 1911)
Home State: Maine
Education: Medical School of Maine (at Bowdoin College)
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old living on his parents' farm in West Gardiner, ME. He enlisted on 13 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 15 December 1863 and transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August (or September) 1864. He mustered out on 28 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in West Gardiner, ME. He began receiving an invalid veteran's pension in June 1880.
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 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Armina Augusta Roberts (1842-1888) in March 1866 and they had 2 daughters, Flora and Annie.
Birth
12/19/1839; Gardiner, ME
Death
1911; burial in Babbs Cemetery, West Gardiner, 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 6638]
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 29254]
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 29255]