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(c. 1835 - ?)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 26 year old lumberman from Hartland, ME, he enlisted on 12 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 1 October 1862. Soon afterward he was under arrest in Augusta, ME and court-martialed, charges not known, sentenced to be discharged from the service "without pay or allowances."
After the War
In 1870 he was working in a shoe shop in Hartland, ME and in 1890 he began receiving an invalid veteran's pension.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Newell S. Burrill. His service from the Adjutant General,2 as Nevil S. Burrill, and the Card File.3 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,4 as N.S. Bussell, Co. C. His first name also seen as Newall and Newhall. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870.
He married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Luce (1843-) and they had 3 children between 1861 and 1867.
Birth
c. 1835; Skowhegan, 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 6643]
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. 264 [AotW citation 29251]
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 29252]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.881 [AotW citation 29253]