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Federal (USV)

Private

Hiram Wixson

(1821 - 1896)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 41 year old farmer in Winslow, ME. He gave his age as 35 when he enlisted on 13 December 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 23 January 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability due to wounds on 19 March 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a laborer in Augusta, ME, and in 1880 he was a farm worker in Benton, ME.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Hiram Wixon. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Maria E. Wilson (1825-) in March 1847 and they had 6 children.

Birth

03/02/1821; Augusta, ME

Death

03/17/1896; Benton, ME; burial in Brown Cemetery, Benton, 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 6652]

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. 267 [AotW citation 29291]

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