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(1842 - 1918)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old painter living with his parents and siblings in Waterville, ME. He enlisted on 8 August and mustered as a Private in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to Company K, date not given, and was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a furniture dealer and chair maker in Waterville, ME. By 1900 he was manufacturing chairs in Oakland, ME, and he was retired there in 1910.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Abram Batchelder. His service from the Card File 2 and the Adjutant General,3 also as Batchelder. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.
He married Laura A. Farnham (1852-1892) in June 1869 and they had a son, Leon (1875-1913). He married again, Florence Ellen Berry (1853-1922) in September 1898.
Birth
01/14/1842; Waterville, ME
Death
10/29/1918; Oakland, ME; burial in Maplewood Cemetery, Fairfield, 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 6645]
2 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 29267]
3 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 29268]