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(1845 - 1930)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living in the poor house in Bath, ME - his father was the overseer there. Giving his age as 18 (he was 16), he enlisted on 14 January 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 January 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was held at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA, then exchanged. He was discharged for disability on 27 November 1863. He enlisted again, in San Francisco, CA on 12 July 1864 and mustered the next day as a Corporal in the 2nd California Cavalry. He mustered out with his Company on 30 May 1866.
After the War
By 1875 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer and rancher at Colfax, Placer County, CA. In 1930 he was farming in Sacramento, CA.
References & notes
His capture from Hyde.1 His service from the Maine Adjutant General,2 the Card File,3 and the Record of California Men in the War of the Rebellion 1861 to 1867 (1900). Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1930, and the California Great Registers of 1875. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary D Dudley (1855-1940) in August 1875 in Placer, CA, and they had 9 children.
Birth
06/03/1845; Phippsburg, ME
Death
12/30/1930; Sacramento, CA; burial in East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, CA
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6669]
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. 271 [AotW citation 29323]
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 29324]