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Federal (USV)

Private

Gardner O.J. Waterhouse

(c. 1844 - 1900)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm worker on the Timothy Hodgdon place in Scarboro (Scarborough), ME. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was transferred to Company K, date not given, and was again missing, at Salem Heights, VA, on 4 May 1863. He mustered out with his Company on 21 August 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a mill worker in Saco, ME. Then a laborer, he died of heart failure in Old Orchard, ME at age 55 in 1900.

References & notes

His status at Antietam from Hyde,1 as T.J. Waterhouse. His service from the Maine Adjutant General,2 as Gardiner or George J. Waterhouse, and the Card File,3 also as G.J. Waterhouse. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870.

Birth

c. 1844; Scarboro, ME

Death

04/21/1900; Old Orchard, ME

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6672]

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 29329]

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 29330]

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