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Federal (USV)

Private

Dennis Coffee

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an unmarried 35 year old laborer in Portland, ME when he enlisted on 17 January 1862, and he mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 28 January 1862.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company F, date not given, and reenlisted on 4 January 1864. He was seriously wounded on 6 May 1864 in the Wilderness, VA, transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 20 September, and was discharged from the Camp Cony Army hospital at Augusta, ME on 1 March 1865.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Dennis Coffer. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File,3 as Dennis Coffy.

He may be the Dennis Coffee (d. 1870) buried in the Forest City Cemetery, South Portland, ME.

Birth

c. 1827 in IRELAND

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 6665]

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 29298]

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 29299]

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