Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was in Company K.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Basic information from Commonwealth of Massachusetts1. Age 31, a mariner from Groton on enlistment in June 1861. Discharged for wounds 6 March 1863 at Washington, DC. Also served in the Veterans Reserve Corps as John S. Symonds.
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. 65 - 67 [AotW citation 6883]