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(1839 - 1917)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker in Bath, ME. On 13 August 1862, then in Skowhegan, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded by a gunshot in the hand 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 Company on 10 November 1862. He was discharged on 13 March 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was a real estate agent in Grand Rapids, MI. He was admitted to the Eastern Branch, National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers in Togus, ME on 9 November 1916 and died there from bladder cancer the next Spring.
References & notes
His wound from Hyde.1. Service information from the Adjutant General.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as R.G. Fulbrick, Co. A. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the Registers of the United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He was single at the time of his death, but a notice in the Daily Kennebec Journal of 21 March 1917 mentions that a son, George M. Philbrick, of Blanchard, survived him.
Birth
04/11/1839; Lincoln, ME
Death
03/20/1917; Chelsea, 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 6656]
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 29203]
3 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 # 4.877 [AotW citation 29204]