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Federal (USV)

Private

Hiram Buker

(1845 - 1862)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was 15 years old and lived with his parents and siblings in Bowdinham, ME. He enlisted and mustered at 16 (giving his age as 18) on 22 August 1861 as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde,1 as Hiram Baker. Service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

05/20/1845; Bowdoinham, ME

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 6689]

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. 190 [AotW citation 20798]

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 29353]

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