F.P. Pettygrove

Federal (USV)

Private

Frederick Polk Pettygrove

(1840 - 1938)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Muscoda, he enlisted in Company C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 22 April 1861. He was wounded at Gainesville, VA in August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was again wounded, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

He was in Howard, Iowa in the 1900 US Federal Census.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave. Further detail and the photograph (posted on ancestry.com) from family genealogists. His name also seen as Frederick Pope Pettygrove.

Birth

07/08/1840; Calais, ME

Death

09/30/1938; Spencer, IA; burial in New Hampton Cemetery, New Hampton, IA

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 355 - 356 [AotW citation 10148]

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