(1817 - 1898)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 43 year old laborer in Westbrook, Cumberland County, ME. He gave his occupation as stone quarrier when he enlisted on 16 August 1861, and he mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 5 November 1862 (or 25 January 1863).
After the War
By 1880 he was working on a "ledge" (or lodge?) and lived in a boarding house with his wife and son James Jr. in Westbrook, ME.
References & notes
Birth
01/01/1817; Westbrook, ME
Death
11/15/1898; Westbrook, ME; burial in Highland Lake Cemetery, Westbrook, 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 6668]
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. 272 [AotW citation 29296]
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 29297]