(c. 1845 - 1864)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and siblings on the family farm in Augusta, ME. He gave his age as 18 when he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company K, 7th Maine Infantry on 11 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 18 December 1863 at Augusta, ME and was wounded and reported missing at Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA on 12 May 1864. He was still absent, missing, when the veterans transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864; it is likely he died at Spotsylvania in 1864.
References & notes
Casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Maine Adjutant General.2 His name is on the monument to the War Dead in Monument Park at State and Grove Streets in Augusta, ME.
Birth
c. 1845; Augusta, ME
Death
1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA
1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6692]
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. 279 [AotW citation 29352]