Louisa's father, a Bootmaker, was mustered into the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry as a Private in Company D on Jan. 29, 1864. The last time he saw Louisa was probably shortly before the regiment was sent to the South in May 1864.
The mother Adeline and her two children, Louisa and Moses, were residing at 44 Southac St. (now Phillips St.) in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood when Moses died of Pneumonia on Feb. 22, 1865 followed by Louisa due to Whooping Cough and Pneumonia just short of a month later. The death record confirms he was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery. The father James Patterson was serving with his regiment guarding Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout, MD at the time his two children died.
Louisa's father, a Bootmaker, was mustered into the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry as a Private in Company D on Jan. 29, 1864. The last time he saw Louisa was probably shortly before the regiment was sent to the South in May 1864.
The mother Adeline and her two children, Louisa and Moses, were residing at 44 Southac St. (now Phillips St.) in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood when Moses died of Pneumonia on Feb. 22, 1865 followed by Louisa due to Whooping Cough and Pneumonia just short of a month later. The death record confirms he was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery. The father James Patterson was serving with his regiment guarding Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout, MD at the time his two children died.
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