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(1843 - 1864)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was 16 years old and lived with his parents and siblings in Somerville, ME. By then an 18 year old farmer in Newcastle, ME, he enlisted on 16 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 25 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was mortally wounded in the abdomen at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and died in Lincoln Hospital, Washington, DC on 7 July.
References & notes
Birth
10/12/1843; Washington, ME
Death
07/07/1864; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington,
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6655]
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. 269 [AotW citation 29285]
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 29286]