He died aged 29 years. (sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Bradford, MA to the end of the year 1849, births)
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BIO (below) courtesy of an anonymous contributor:
Civil War Soldier
Sgt. – Co. A, 19th Massachusetts Infantry
Entered service August 28, 1861 at the age of 28; wounded September 17, 1862 at Battle of Antietam; died of wounds.
”The 16th of September we reached Antietam, and formed in line of battle. On the morning of the 17th, with our brigade in the centre, we advanced in three lines of battle, over walls and fences, through fields, under a terrible fire of artillery. The regiment was growing nervous but did not break … Having become steady, we moved forward to a strip of woods, and came upon the enemy strongly posted. Grape and canister, shot and shell, volleys of musketry greeted us, - and our men fell as grain before the scythe … I had not seen my brother since we advanced in line. He was left general guide of the regiment, and his place was on the left. As soon as we halted I went to the company, but he was not there. The following day I searched the hospitals, but could not find him, and on the morning of the 19th, the rebels having left our front, I went where their lines had been and found him … near an old haystack. He had been shot in the right side of the neck, the ball passing out of the left shoulder; it had cut the spinal nerve, and he could not move hand or foot. I saw at once that he could not live and had him placed in an ambulance and carried to our field hospital. We had left home together, and had often talked of a happy reunion around the old fireside when the war should end. Now I must write to my old mother that one of the three who had bade her good-by in 61’ would never return” - Capt. John G. B. Adams (brother of Sgt. Isaac N. Adams) from his book, ”Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment”, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1899. 44-46. Print.
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BIO (below) courtesy of an anonymous contributor:
Civil War Soldier
Sgt. – Co. A, 19th Massachusetts Infantry
Entered service August 28, 1861 at the age of 28; wounded September 17, 1862 at Battle of Antietam; died of wounds.
”The 16th of September we reached Antietam, and formed in line of battle. On the morning of the 17th, with our brigade in the centre, we advanced in three lines of battle, over walls and fences, through fields, under a terrible fire of artillery. The regiment was growing nervous but did not break … Having become steady, we moved forward to a strip of woods, and came upon the enemy strongly posted. Grape and canister, shot and shell, volleys of musketry greeted us, - and our men fell as grain before the scythe … I had not seen my brother since we advanced in line. He was left general guide of the regiment, and his place was on the left. As soon as we halted I went to the company, but he was not there. The following day I searched the hospitals, but could not find him, and on the morning of the 19th, the rebels having left our front, I went where their lines had been and found him … near an old haystack. He had been shot in the right side of the neck, the ball passing out of the left shoulder; it had cut the spinal nerve, and he could not move hand or foot. I saw at once that he could not live and had him placed in an ambulance and carried to our field hospital. We had left home together, and had often talked of a happy reunion around the old fireside when the war should end. Now I must write to my old mother that one of the three who had bade her good-by in 61’ would never return” - Capt. John G. B. Adams (brother of Sgt. Isaac N. Adams) from his book, ”Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment”, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1899. 44-46. Print.
He died aged 29 years. (sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Bradford, MA to the end of the year 1849, births)
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BIO (below) courtesy of an anonymous contributor:
Civil War Soldier
Sgt. – Co. A, 19th Massachusetts Infantry
Entered service August 28, 1861 at the age of 28; wounded September 17, 1862 at Battle of Antietam; died of wounds.
”The 16th of September we reached Antietam, and formed in line of battle. On the morning of the 17th, with our brigade in the centre, we advanced in three lines of battle, over walls and fences, through fields, under a terrible fire of artillery. The regiment was growing nervous but did not break … Having become steady, we moved forward to a strip of woods, and came upon the enemy strongly posted. Grape and canister, shot and shell, volleys of musketry greeted us, - and our men fell as grain before the scythe … I had not seen my brother since we advanced in line. He was left general guide of the regiment, and his place was on the left. As soon as we halted I went to the company, but he was not there. The following day I searched the hospitals, but could not find him, and on the morning of the 19th, the rebels having left our front, I went where their lines had been and found him … near an old haystack. He had been shot in the right side of the neck, the ball passing out of the left shoulder; it had cut the spinal nerve, and he could not move hand or foot. I saw at once that he could not live and had him placed in an ambulance and carried to our field hospital. We had left home together, and had often talked of a happy reunion around the old fireside when the war should end. Now I must write to my old mother that one of the three who had bade her good-by in 61’ would never return” - Capt. John G. B. Adams (brother of Sgt. Isaac N. Adams) from his book, ”Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment”, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1899. 44-46. Print.
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BIO (below) courtesy of an anonymous contributor:
Civil War Soldier
Sgt. – Co. A, 19th Massachusetts Infantry
Entered service August 28, 1861 at the age of 28; wounded September 17, 1862 at Battle of Antietam; died of wounds.
”The 16th of September we reached Antietam, and formed in line of battle. On the morning of the 17th, with our brigade in the centre, we advanced in three lines of battle, over walls and fences, through fields, under a terrible fire of artillery. The regiment was growing nervous but did not break … Having become steady, we moved forward to a strip of woods, and came upon the enemy strongly posted. Grape and canister, shot and shell, volleys of musketry greeted us, - and our men fell as grain before the scythe … I had not seen my brother since we advanced in line. He was left general guide of the regiment, and his place was on the left. As soon as we halted I went to the company, but he was not there. The following day I searched the hospitals, but could not find him, and on the morning of the 19th, the rebels having left our front, I went where their lines had been and found him … near an old haystack. He had been shot in the right side of the neck, the ball passing out of the left shoulder; it had cut the spinal nerve, and he could not move hand or foot. I saw at once that he could not live and had him placed in an ambulance and carried to our field hospital. We had left home together, and had often talked of a happy reunion around the old fireside when the war should end. Now I must write to my old mother that one of the three who had bade her good-by in 61’ would never return” - Capt. John G. B. Adams (brother of Sgt. Isaac N. Adams) from his book, ”Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment”, Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 18 Post Office Square, 1899. 44-46. Print.
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