Sumner enlisted in the 1st Me Cavalry on June 3, 1862 in Bangor, ME. He was assigned to Company H, 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment US Infantry. He was in the Second Battle of Bull Run-was in the Battle of Antietam, was captured, imprisoned at Libby Prison, was exchanged, went to Washington, discharged as unfit for further service. He re enlisted- and joined the Navy as a landsman in the NY Naval Yard. From then until June, 3, 1863 he served in NC.The next year he served on the U.S.S. Water Witch stationed off the FL coast and was captured by the Confederate Navy on June 3, 1864. He was captured, imprisoned at Andersonville Prison for 5 months, then transferred to Libby Prison, held 4 weeks and paroled in VA in October 1864. He had taken a fictitious name of a dead tent mate, Charles A. Kimball, as a rouse to be exchanged and returned to ME. The alias caused him much difficulty in obtaining his Civil War pension. He lived in Etna until 1887, then Hermon until 1908. He moved to Pasadena, CA and lived with his son Raymond until his death. He was married to Varilla Dyer Friend Raymond, widow of Daniel P. Raymond, daughter of Amos Friend and Sally DeWolf Friend, a direct descendant of Edward Fuller, Mayflower passenger.
Cause of death: angina pectoris, chronic endocarditis and myocarditis, and chronic interstitial nephritis
Cause of death: angina pectoris, chronic endocarditis and myocarditis, and chronic interstitial nephritis
Sumner enlisted in the 1st Me Cavalry on June 3, 1862 in Bangor, ME. He was assigned to Company H, 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment US Infantry. He was in the Second Battle of Bull Run-was in the Battle of Antietam, was captured, imprisoned at Libby Prison, was exchanged, went to Washington, discharged as unfit for further service. He re enlisted- and joined the Navy as a landsman in the NY Naval Yard. From then until June, 3, 1863 he served in NC.The next year he served on the U.S.S. Water Witch stationed off the FL coast and was captured by the Confederate Navy on June 3, 1864. He was captured, imprisoned at Andersonville Prison for 5 months, then transferred to Libby Prison, held 4 weeks and paroled in VA in October 1864. He had taken a fictitious name of a dead tent mate, Charles A. Kimball, as a rouse to be exchanged and returned to ME. The alias caused him much difficulty in obtaining his Civil War pension. He lived in Etna until 1887, then Hermon until 1908. He moved to Pasadena, CA and lived with his son Raymond until his death. He was married to Varilla Dyer Friend Raymond, widow of Daniel P. Raymond, daughter of Amos Friend and Sally DeWolf Friend, a direct descendant of Edward Fuller, Mayflower passenger.
Cause of death: angina pectoris, chronic endocarditis and myocarditis, and chronic interstitial nephritis
Cause of death: angina pectoris, chronic endocarditis and myocarditis, and chronic interstitial nephritis
