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Federal (USV)

Private

Albert B. Whittier

(1840 - 1863)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, from Waterford, he mustered as Private, Company I, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged in 1863, date not given, and died of his wounds at home in Waterford on 26 March 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde1. Service from the Adjutant General2 and his Report for the years 1864 and 1865 (1866). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/29/1840; Deerfield, NH

Death

03/26/1863; Waterford, ME; burial in Elm Vale Cemetery, South Waterford, 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 6685]

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, pg. 188 [AotW citation 20831]

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