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(c. 1836 - ?)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 25 year old laborer from Portland, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, First Maine Infantry on 3 May 1861 and mustered out with them on 5 August. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company B, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861. He transferred to Company K, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was later listed as a deserter, but had enlisted in Washington, DC for Regular Army service on 26 January 1863 as a Private in Company D, 16th United States Infantry. He was discharged on 10 September 1864 at Annapolis, MD at the expiration of his term of service. He enlisted yet again on 28 September 1864 as a Private in Company H of the 2nd Maine Cavalry. He mustered out with them on 6 December 1865 in Barancas, FL.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1836
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6670]
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 [AotW citation 27852]
3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 149, pg. 725 [AotW citation 27853]