The son of James & Jennette (Buck) Murdock, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer James Irish in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine. He stood 5' 7" tall.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Augusta November 26, 1861, and mustered into federal service there December 30, 1861, as a private with Co. G, 14th Maine Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and soon detached to duty first as a ambulance driver and later to unspecified duties at brigade headquarters He transferred to Co. B ca. November 1864 when the regiment consolidated into a battalion and honorably discharged at term's end December 30, 1864, in Augusta.
He married Mary Ellen Sipe May 10, 1868, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and fathered James (b. @1869), Mary E. (b. 04/07/74 or 02/07/75 - married a Shank), Caroline "Carrie" May (b. 10/01/76 - married Harry Smith Johns), Nellie A. (b. 03/31/80 - married Charles Kurtz), Charles Edward (b. 08/01/83), Jeanette Buck (b. 09/13/86), and George LeRoy (b. 01/01/88). He lost his right index finger in a post-war work accident, and in 1880 lived in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, where he was a member of Zinn Post No. 415, G.A.R. He later moved to Columbia, Lancaster County, and there died from "apoplexy" with "valvular heart disease & nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate asserts an 1845 birth year.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Augusta November 26, 1861, and mustered into federal service there December 30, 1861, as a private with Co. G, 14th Maine Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and soon detached to duty first as a ambulance driver and later to unspecified duties at brigade headquarters He transferred to Co. B ca. November 1864 when the regiment consolidated into a battalion and honorably discharged at term's end December 30, 1864, in Augusta.
He married Mary Ellen Sipe May 10, 1868, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and fathered James (b. @1869), Mary E. (b. 04/07/74 or 02/07/75 - married a Shank), Caroline "Carrie" May (b. 10/01/76 - married Harry Smith Johns), Nellie A. (b. 03/31/80 - married Charles Kurtz), Charles Edward (b. 08/01/83), Jeanette Buck (b. 09/13/86), and George LeRoy (b. 01/01/88). He lost his right index finger in a post-war work accident, and in 1880 lived in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, where he was a member of Zinn Post No. 415, G.A.R. He later moved to Columbia, Lancaster County, and there died from "apoplexy" with "valvular heart disease & nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate asserts an 1845 birth year.
The son of James & Jennette (Buck) Murdock, in 1860 he was a laborer living with and/or working for farmer James Irish in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine. He stood 5' 7" tall.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Augusta November 26, 1861, and mustered into federal service there December 30, 1861, as a private with Co. G, 14th Maine Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and soon detached to duty first as a ambulance driver and later to unspecified duties at brigade headquarters He transferred to Co. B ca. November 1864 when the regiment consolidated into a battalion and honorably discharged at term's end December 30, 1864, in Augusta.
He married Mary Ellen Sipe May 10, 1868, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and fathered James (b. @1869), Mary E. (b. 04/07/74 or 02/07/75 - married a Shank), Caroline "Carrie" May (b. 10/01/76 - married Harry Smith Johns), Nellie A. (b. 03/31/80 - married Charles Kurtz), Charles Edward (b. 08/01/83), Jeanette Buck (b. 09/13/86), and George LeRoy (b. 01/01/88). He lost his right index finger in a post-war work accident, and in 1880 lived in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, where he was a member of Zinn Post No. 415, G.A.R. He later moved to Columbia, Lancaster County, and there died from "apoplexy" with "valvular heart disease & nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate asserts an 1845 birth year.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Augusta November 26, 1861, and mustered into federal service there December 30, 1861, as a private with Co. G, 14th Maine Infantry. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer January 1, 1864, and soon detached to duty first as a ambulance driver and later to unspecified duties at brigade headquarters He transferred to Co. B ca. November 1864 when the regiment consolidated into a battalion and honorably discharged at term's end December 30, 1864, in Augusta.
He married Mary Ellen Sipe May 10, 1868, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and fathered James (b. @1869), Mary E. (b. 04/07/74 or 02/07/75 - married a Shank), Caroline "Carrie" May (b. 10/01/76 - married Harry Smith Johns), Nellie A. (b. 03/31/80 - married Charles Kurtz), Charles Edward (b. 08/01/83), Jeanette Buck (b. 09/13/86), and George LeRoy (b. 01/01/88). He lost his right index finger in a post-war work accident, and in 1880 lived in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, where he was a member of Zinn Post No. 415, G.A.R. He later moved to Columbia, Lancaster County, and there died from "apoplexy" with "valvular heart disease & nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate asserts an 1845 birth year.
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