Son of H. H. Preston and Mary Hoyt.
Husband of Sarah A. Chamberlin/Chamberlain who he married in Vermont on 1/1/1861. Minister P. C. Hines officiating.
Preston, served the Union cause during the Civil War. He was drafted and enlisted on 7/30/63 as a Private in Company "H", 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment. He was captured by Confederate forces at the First Battle of Weldon Railroad, now commonly referred to as the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road on 6/23/64. He was first sent to the notorious Andersonville Prison Camp and then on to Camp Lawton at Millen, Georgia, where he died of disease on 10/28/64. He is buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
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Husband of Sarah A. Chamberlin/Chamberlain who he married in Vermont on 1/1/1861. Minister P. C. Hines officiating.
Preston, served the Union cause during the Civil War. He was drafted and enlisted on 7/30/63 as a Private in Company "H", 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment. He was captured by Confederate forces at the First Battle of Weldon Railroad, now commonly referred to as the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road on 6/23/64. He was first sent to the notorious Andersonville Prison Camp and then on to Camp Lawton at Millen, Georgia, where he died of disease on 10/28/64. He is buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
Will write more later and clean up the above info
Son of H. H. Preston and Mary Hoyt.
Husband of Sarah A. Chamberlin/Chamberlain who he married in Vermont on 1/1/1861. Minister P. C. Hines officiating.
Preston, served the Union cause during the Civil War. He was drafted and enlisted on 7/30/63 as a Private in Company "H", 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment. He was captured by Confederate forces at the First Battle of Weldon Railroad, now commonly referred to as the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road on 6/23/64. He was first sent to the notorious Andersonville Prison Camp and then on to Camp Lawton at Millen, Georgia, where he died of disease on 10/28/64. He is buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
Will write more later and clean up the above info
Husband of Sarah A. Chamberlin/Chamberlain who he married in Vermont on 1/1/1861. Minister P. C. Hines officiating.
Preston, served the Union cause during the Civil War. He was drafted and enlisted on 7/30/63 as a Private in Company "H", 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment. He was captured by Confederate forces at the First Battle of Weldon Railroad, now commonly referred to as the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road on 6/23/64. He was first sent to the notorious Andersonville Prison Camp and then on to Camp Lawton at Millen, Georgia, where he died of disease on 10/28/64. He is buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina.
Will write more later and clean up the above info
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