James W. Lent

Age 19, from Richmond, ME, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

He was reported missing but had been wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He reenlisted on 21 December 1863 and transferred to Company F, First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864. He mustered out with them on 28 June 1865.

His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General.2

The US Congress awarded Emma J Lent an increase in her widow's pension to $50/month in about 1929.

In 1886 his wife Emma, then living in Manchester, ME, sued a local rumseller to recover $2000 for selling liquor to her husband.

c. 1842