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(1846 - 1917)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Giving his age as 18, from China, ME, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 7th Maine Infantry on 23 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, but had been captured there.
The rest of the War
He was discharged in January 1863. He reenlisted, as a Private in Company L, First Maine Heavy Artillery on 2 January 1864. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right hand at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 19 May 1864 and promoted to Corporal on 29 December 1864. He mustered out on 11 September 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Waldo County, ME. In 1900 he was a stone cutter in Rockport, ME.
References & notes
His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and Shaw & House's The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1861-1865 (1903). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Arvilla N George (1847-1883) in February 1867 and they had 5 children.
Birth
07/04/1846; Rockland, ME
Death
07/10/1917; Rockland, ME; burial in Achorn Cemetery, Rockland, MD
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6657]
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 [AotW citation 27834]