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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert Parker

(? - 1864)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 30, a farmer from Milford on enlistment in June 1861. He was in Company D.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Wounded also at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863, promoted Corporal 6 May 1864, and mortally wounded at Cold Harbor, VA on 30 May. He died 6 July 1864 of wounds in Boston.

References & notes

Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1.

Death

07/06/1864; Boston, MA

Notes

1   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 24 - 29  [AotW citation 6753]