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(1837 - 1913)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
A 24 year old farmer in Monmouth, ME, he enlisted on 25 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his leg 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 with necrosis of his wounded leg, and was sent on to Baltimore on 12 June 1863. He transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 20 September 1864 and was discharged for disability on 9 May 1865.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Monmouth, ME, but in 1900 he was a moccasin maker there. He had retired in Monmouth by 1910.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary W Safford (1841-1882) and they had a daughter Lettie (1881-1924). He married again, Augusta S. Reed (1843-1932) in December 1889.
Birth
11/07/1837; Monmouth, ME
Death
06/19/1913; Monmouth, ME; burial in Monmouth Ridge Cemetery, Monmouth, 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 6691]
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. 280 [AotW citation 29360]
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 29361]
4 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 #4.874 [AotW citation 29362]