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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel R. Tuttle

(1843 - 1864)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his widowed mother Fanny and 4 siblings in Fairfield, ME. He enlisted on 13 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was sightly wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 19 December 1863 but was killed on 5 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Private S.R. Tuttle. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

1843; Fairfield, ME

Death

05/05/1864; the Wilderness, VA

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 6644]

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 [AotW citation 29278]

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 29279]

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