Capt. Andrew T. Bushee proudly served for the Union in the Civil War in two regiments:
The 65th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Company E, 1861 – 1863, as 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant, in which he fought in skirmishes throughout Virginia including Fredericksburg and the Seven Days Battle, in W. Virginia, Washington D.C. including the Potomac, Maryland including Antietam, and Gettysburg, Pa., where his regiment is memorialized on Culp's Hill.
The 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, 1863 – 1865, where he served as commanding Captain in battles throughout Louisiana.
He was considered a military hero in Providence, R.I., however, Andrew did not return there after the war where he could have been nicely setup to become a successful businessman due to his status. Instead, he stayed in Louisiana to the dismay of Yankee friends and family, where he had fallen in love with a Rebel. In a letter regarding the woman he loved, he wrote, "for her I would have abandoned the earth."
He married Alice Louisa Patience Miller of Donaldsonville, La., on Christmas Day, 1867. She died at the age of 29. He had three daughters: Alice Bushee, Grace Bushee, Marguerite Miller Bushee Henderson, and a son, Harold Bushee, who died as an infant.
Post war, Andrew Bushee became a journalist in New Bedford, Mass. In his final years, his ill health found him in and out of hospitals and soldiers' homes until he finally succumbed to consumption at the age of 57 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
He wrote: "We contain in ourselves every element of heaven and hell, and the development of either depends entirely upon ourselves."
The 65th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Company E, 1861 – 1863, as 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant, in which he fought in skirmishes throughout Virginia including Fredericksburg and the Seven Days Battle, in W. Virginia, Washington D.C. including the Potomac, Maryland including Antietam, and Gettysburg, Pa., where his regiment is memorialized on Culp's Hill.
The 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, 1863 – 1865, where he served as commanding Captain in battles throughout Louisiana.
He was considered a military hero in Providence, R.I., however, Andrew did not return there after the war where he could have been nicely setup to become a successful businessman due to his status. Instead, he stayed in Louisiana to the dismay of Yankee friends and family, where he had fallen in love with a Rebel. In a letter regarding the woman he loved, he wrote, "for her I would have abandoned the earth."
He married Alice Louisa Patience Miller of Donaldsonville, La., on Christmas Day, 1867. She died at the age of 29. He had three daughters: Alice Bushee, Grace Bushee, Marguerite Miller Bushee Henderson, and a son, Harold Bushee, who died as an infant.
Post war, Andrew Bushee became a journalist in New Bedford, Mass. In his final years, his ill health found him in and out of hospitals and soldiers' homes until he finally succumbed to consumption at the age of 57 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
He wrote: "We contain in ourselves every element of heaven and hell, and the development of either depends entirely upon ourselves."
Capt. Andrew T. Bushee proudly served for the Union in the Civil War in two regiments:
The 65th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Company E, 1861 – 1863, as 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant, in which he fought in skirmishes throughout Virginia including Fredericksburg and the Seven Days Battle, in W. Virginia, Washington D.C. including the Potomac, Maryland including Antietam, and Gettysburg, Pa., where his regiment is memorialized on Culp's Hill.
The 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, 1863 – 1865, where he served as commanding Captain in battles throughout Louisiana.
He was considered a military hero in Providence, R.I., however, Andrew did not return there after the war where he could have been nicely setup to become a successful businessman due to his status. Instead, he stayed in Louisiana to the dismay of Yankee friends and family, where he had fallen in love with a Rebel. In a letter regarding the woman he loved, he wrote, "for her I would have abandoned the earth."
He married Alice Louisa Patience Miller of Donaldsonville, La., on Christmas Day, 1867. She died at the age of 29. He had three daughters: Alice Bushee, Grace Bushee, Marguerite Miller Bushee Henderson, and a son, Harold Bushee, who died as an infant.
Post war, Andrew Bushee became a journalist in New Bedford, Mass. In his final years, his ill health found him in and out of hospitals and soldiers' homes until he finally succumbed to consumption at the age of 57 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
He wrote: "We contain in ourselves every element of heaven and hell, and the development of either depends entirely upon ourselves."
The 65th Regiment of New York State Volunteers, Company E, 1861 – 1863, as 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant, in which he fought in skirmishes throughout Virginia including Fredericksburg and the Seven Days Battle, in W. Virginia, Washington D.C. including the Potomac, Maryland including Antietam, and Gettysburg, Pa., where his regiment is memorialized on Culp's Hill.
The 3rd Regiment Rhode Island Cavalry, Company D, 1863 – 1865, where he served as commanding Captain in battles throughout Louisiana.
He was considered a military hero in Providence, R.I., however, Andrew did not return there after the war where he could have been nicely setup to become a successful businessman due to his status. Instead, he stayed in Louisiana to the dismay of Yankee friends and family, where he had fallen in love with a Rebel. In a letter regarding the woman he loved, he wrote, "for her I would have abandoned the earth."
He married Alice Louisa Patience Miller of Donaldsonville, La., on Christmas Day, 1867. She died at the age of 29. He had three daughters: Alice Bushee, Grace Bushee, Marguerite Miller Bushee Henderson, and a son, Harold Bushee, who died as an infant.
Post war, Andrew Bushee became a journalist in New Bedford, Mass. In his final years, his ill health found him in and out of hospitals and soldiers' homes until he finally succumbed to consumption at the age of 57 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
He wrote: "We contain in ourselves every element of heaven and hell, and the development of either depends entirely upon ourselves."
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