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(1840 - 1900)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old blacksmith in Portland, ME. He enlisted on 16 August 1861 and mustered as Corporal, Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred as 2nd Lieutenant to Company I, 30th Maine Infantry in June (or January) 1864. He mustered out on 20 August 1865 in Savannah, GA.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde,1 as William H. Motly. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File,3 as Harrison Motley or William H. Motley. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Catharine B Morse (1836-) in 1764 in Boston, MA. He married again, Elizabeth Ermina Whitney (1844-1878) in October 1872 in Portland, ME, and they had 2 children. He may have married a third time, as his widow was granted a US pension in 1916.
Birth
12/01/1840; Gardiner, ME
Death
04/26/1900; Long Island, 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 6658]
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. 270 [AotW citation 29307]
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 29308]