Actual death location was near Bellfield Plantation
Lucius M. Sargent, an 1857 graduate of Harvard Medical School, was an accomplished draughtsman and was appointed the first artist of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the beginning of the war, he became a surgeon with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers, then joined the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in October, 1861, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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After the death of his first wife in 1824, Lucius Manlius married Sarah Cutler Dunn on July 14, 1825. Their son Lucius Manlius Sargent (September 15, 1826 Boston – December 9, 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia) graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical school there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers in May 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, January 2, 1864, lieutenant colonel, September 30, and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River.
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"[Lucius Manlius Sargent's] remains were brought to Boston, and interred Dec. 21, 1864, with military honors, in the Forest Hills Cemetery, and a memorial, of great beauty, upon the death of this talented and valiant young man, appeared at the same time in the Boston Advertiser..."
SOURCE:"Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent"; by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 21.
Lucius M. Sargent, an 1857 graduate of Harvard Medical School, was an accomplished draughtsman and was appointed the first artist of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the beginning of the war, he became a surgeon with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers, then joined the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in October, 1861, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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After the death of his first wife in 1824, Lucius Manlius married Sarah Cutler Dunn on July 14, 1825. Their son Lucius Manlius Sargent (September 15, 1826 Boston – December 9, 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia) graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical school there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers in May 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, January 2, 1864, lieutenant colonel, September 30, and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River.
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"[Lucius Manlius Sargent's] remains were brought to Boston, and interred Dec. 21, 1864, with military honors, in the Forest Hills Cemetery, and a memorial, of great beauty, upon the death of this talented and valiant young man, appeared at the same time in the Boston Advertiser..."
SOURCE:"Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent"; by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 21.
Actual death location was near Bellfield Plantation
Lucius M. Sargent, an 1857 graduate of Harvard Medical School, was an accomplished draughtsman and was appointed the first artist of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the beginning of the war, he became a surgeon with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers, then joined the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in October, 1861, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
From Wikipedia
After the death of his first wife in 1824, Lucius Manlius married Sarah Cutler Dunn on July 14, 1825. Their son Lucius Manlius Sargent (September 15, 1826 Boston – December 9, 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia) graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical school there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers in May 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, January 2, 1864, lieutenant colonel, September 30, and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River.
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"[Lucius Manlius Sargent's] remains were brought to Boston, and interred Dec. 21, 1864, with military honors, in the Forest Hills Cemetery, and a memorial, of great beauty, upon the death of this talented and valiant young man, appeared at the same time in the Boston Advertiser..."
SOURCE:"Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent"; by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 21.
Lucius M. Sargent, an 1857 graduate of Harvard Medical School, was an accomplished draughtsman and was appointed the first artist of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At the beginning of the war, he became a surgeon with the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers, then joined the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in October, 1861, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
From Wikipedia
After the death of his first wife in 1824, Lucius Manlius married Sarah Cutler Dunn on July 14, 1825. Their son Lucius Manlius Sargent (September 15, 1826 Boston – December 9, 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia) graduated at Harvard in 1848, and at the medical school there in 1857, becoming house surgeon and dispensary physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He was commissioned surgeon in the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers in May 1861, but resigned in October of that year, and became captain in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, was ordered to the Army of the Potomac, and participated in the battles of Kelly's Ford, Antietam, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He became major in his former regiment, January 2, 1864, lieutenant colonel, September 30, and was mortally wounded in an engagement on Meherrin River.
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"[Lucius Manlius Sargent's] remains were brought to Boston, and interred Dec. 21, 1864, with military honors, in the Forest Hills Cemetery, and a memorial, of great beauty, upon the death of this talented and valiant young man, appeared at the same time in the Boston Advertiser..."
SOURCE:"Reminiscences of Lucius Manlius Sargent"; by John Hannibal Sheppard (1871); p. 21.
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