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(1841 - 1879)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 20 year old shoemaker in Greene, ME, he enlisted on 23 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his hip/femur in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick on 29 September was discharged for disability there on 10 (or 13) March 1863.
After the War
"Wounds" given as his cause of death at age 38 in December 1879.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 Further wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His service from the Adjutant General,3 as George W McKinney, and the Card File.4 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ida Eunice Patterson (1849-1881) in December 1872 and they had 2 sons.
Birth
03/08/1841; Augusta, GA
Death
12/28/1879; Waldo, ME; burial in Shorey Cemetery, Waldo, 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 6690]
2 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 #4.871 [AotW citation 29356]
3 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. 279 [AotW citation 29357]
4 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 29358]