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(1837 - 1907)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 23 year old mariner living with his mother Elizabeth and brother William in Portland, ME. He enlisted on 15 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 20 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left leg 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 back to his unit on 12 November 1862. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in June 1863 (or February 1864) and mustered out on 17 June 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a mariner back in Portland, ME living with his mother and brother. By 1880 and to 1892 he was a laborer there. In May 1886 he did 60 days in jail for drunkenness, his second such offense, and was again in jail for 30 days for intoxication in October 1887. He was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Togus, ME on 17 December 1892 and died there of pulmonary tuberculosis on 26 September 1907.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Hospital details from the Patient List,4 as J.A. Foster. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, the Portland Daily Press of 17 May 1886 and 19 October 1887, and the Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
07/05/1837; Portland, ME
Death
09/26/1907; Togus, ME; burial in Togus National Cemetery, Chelsea, 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 6653]
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. 266 [AotW citation 29282]
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 29283]
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 #4.878 [AotW citation 29340]