(c. 1842 - ?)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 19, from Richmond, ME, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was reported missing but had been wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
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.
References & notes
More on the Web
In 1886 his wife Emma, then living in Manchester, ME, sued a local rumseller to recover $2000 for selling liquor to her husband.
Birth
c. 1842
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6671]
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 27854]