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Federal (USV)

Private

Elisha C. Debeck

(c. 1843 - 1900)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old worker on his parents' farm at Clifton, ME. He enlisted on 20 August 1861 and mustered the next day as a Private in Company H, 7th Maine Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was transferred to Company I, date not given, and was listed as a deserter as of 1 June 1863.

After the War

By 1880 he was a farmer in Clifton, ME.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Maine Adjutant General,2 as Elisha C. Debec, and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880.

He married Henrietta "Etta" Brann(1845-1916) in Boston in August 1870 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1843; Clifton, ME

Death

09/12/1900; Boston, MA

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 6679]

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 29331]

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 29332]

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