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Federal (USV)

Private

Darius Hartford

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

An unmarried 23 year old lumberman at Hampden, ME, he enlisted on 5 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3

Birth

c. 1838; Etna, ME

Death

05/04/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

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 6684]

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. 276 [AotW citation 29345]

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 29346]

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