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(c. 1844 - 1893)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old confectioner living with confectioner B P Clarke and family in Cambridge, MA. Giving his age as 18, he enlisted in Boston on 29 April 1861 and mustered there on 26 June as a Private in Company E, 12th Massachusetts Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield and briefly, on 27 and 28 September 1862, in US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD. He was discharged for disability from wounds on 13 January 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was again a confectioner in Cambridge, MA, but by 1880 was a machinist in Somerville, MA.
References & notes
His service from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3 Further details from from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and research in his widow Lillie's pension file kindly shared by Damian Shiels; Lillie received her US pension at Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland in 1899, perhaps while visiting family there. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lillie Ray (1843-1921) in November 1867.
More on the Web
Much more about US military pensions paid in Ireland may be found on Damian's Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map.
Birth
c. 1844 in SCOTLAND
Death
12/05/1893; Medford, MA; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, MA
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. 32 - 34 [AotW citation 6779]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 311 [AotW citation 33966]
3 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 #498 [AotW citation 33967]