Wallace Ahira Putnam (first named Lyman Holton)
D 20 June 1864 at Stoughton, Mass of wounds received at the crossing of the North Anna. The historian of the 10th regiment said of him, "Many a tear was shed to the memory of the gallant Putnam". On the Soldiers' Monument, his name leads the list of Danvers' slain in war. His military record is as follows: mustered 21 June, 1861, Co. E, 10th Reg., 2d Lt.; 1st Lt. 28 July 1862; resigned 24 Jan 1863; mustered 1 Aug 1863, 56th Inf; Cap 21 Nov 1863; Major 7 May, 1864; wounded 24 May 1864. At Spottsylvania in the battles of the 12th and 18th he led his regiment. Prior to enlistment he had been teaching in the High School at South Hadley. He had graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School.
Source: "History of the Putnam family in England and America"
D 20 June 1864 at Stoughton, Mass of wounds received at the crossing of the North Anna. The historian of the 10th regiment said of him, "Many a tear was shed to the memory of the gallant Putnam". On the Soldiers' Monument, his name leads the list of Danvers' slain in war. His military record is as follows: mustered 21 June, 1861, Co. E, 10th Reg., 2d Lt.; 1st Lt. 28 July 1862; resigned 24 Jan 1863; mustered 1 Aug 1863, 56th Inf; Cap 21 Nov 1863; Major 7 May, 1864; wounded 24 May 1864. At Spottsylvania in the battles of the 12th and 18th he led his regiment. Prior to enlistment he had been teaching in the High School at South Hadley. He had graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School.
Source: "History of the Putnam family in England and America"
Wallace Ahira Putnam (first named Lyman Holton)
D 20 June 1864 at Stoughton, Mass of wounds received at the crossing of the North Anna. The historian of the 10th regiment said of him, "Many a tear was shed to the memory of the gallant Putnam". On the Soldiers' Monument, his name leads the list of Danvers' slain in war. His military record is as follows: mustered 21 June, 1861, Co. E, 10th Reg., 2d Lt.; 1st Lt. 28 July 1862; resigned 24 Jan 1863; mustered 1 Aug 1863, 56th Inf; Cap 21 Nov 1863; Major 7 May, 1864; wounded 24 May 1864. At Spottsylvania in the battles of the 12th and 18th he led his regiment. Prior to enlistment he had been teaching in the High School at South Hadley. He had graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School.
Source: "History of the Putnam family in England and America"
D 20 June 1864 at Stoughton, Mass of wounds received at the crossing of the North Anna. The historian of the 10th regiment said of him, "Many a tear was shed to the memory of the gallant Putnam". On the Soldiers' Monument, his name leads the list of Danvers' slain in war. His military record is as follows: mustered 21 June, 1861, Co. E, 10th Reg., 2d Lt.; 1st Lt. 28 July 1862; resigned 24 Jan 1863; mustered 1 Aug 1863, 56th Inf; Cap 21 Nov 1863; Major 7 May, 1864; wounded 24 May 1864. At Spottsylvania in the battles of the 12th and 18th he led his regiment. Prior to enlistment he had been teaching in the High School at South Hadley. He had graduated from the Bridgewater Normal School.
Source: "History of the Putnam family in England and America"
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Major of the 56th Mass Veterans Vol. Wounded on the 24th of May at the Crossing of North Anna, Va and died June 20th 1864 Aged 26
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