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(1845 - 1915)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company H, 7th Maine Infantry on 22 MArch 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 1 October 1862. He was transferred to Company I, date not given, and was discharged for disability on 18 May 1863.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Card File,3 also as G.B. Boyer or George R. Bayner. Hospital details from the Patient List,4 as R. Boyer. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Marcella R. Merrill (1848-1900) and they had a son Frederick (1876) who died within his first year.
Birth
02/02/1845; Carleton, New Brunswick, CANADA
Death
05/21/1915; Somerville, MA; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Kennebunk, ME
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6676]
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. 273 [AotW citation 29333]
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 29334]
4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.870 [AotW citation 29339]