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Card catalog notes & New Britain Herald, May 27, 1989: "Enlisted 28 July, 1862, mustered 8/23/1862. Served Civil War, 14th Reg., Co. F. C.V. [i.e. Conn. Volunteer] Infantry. Won Congressional Medal of Honor in battle at Fredricksburg [New Britain Herald article states he was awarded the medal for the capture of the Confederate flag in the battle] . . . Killed in Battle of the Wilderness [May 6, 1864] . . . Bur. Maple Cem., marker placed beside grave 5/27/89 . Promoted to Corporal, 2/20/[18]64." Native of Burlington."
1862 ledger: p. 96, 97.
married to Eliza Shelley |
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