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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Robert H. Jackson

(1839 - 1864)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farm worker on his parents' place in Naples, Cumberland County, ME. He enlisted on 8 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He may have been promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his foot 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 returned to his unit on 10 November 1862. He was transferred to Company F, date not given, and discharged for disability on 12 February 1863. He enlisted again, on 8 September 1863 and mustered on 19 December as a Sergeant in Company C, 30th Maine Infantry. He died of disease in a hospital in Washington, DC on 4 August 1864.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Card File.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Maria Whitney in October 1863 in Naples.

Birth

01/1839; Naples, ME

Death

08/04/1864; Washington, DC; burial in Gideon Jackson Cemetery, Naples, ME

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6660]

2 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 29300]

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 #4.873 [AotW citation 29342]

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