age 39 y.
Served Co. C 139th New York Infantry, KIA at Cold Harbor, VA. Graduated from Yale class of 1849.
Source:
http://www.rays-place.com/cemeteries/104-9.htm∼SHELDEN CLARK BEECHER was born at Oxford, Conn,
April 7,1826.
After leaving college he was occupied nearly all his time in teaching, at various towns in the state of New York, until 1858, when, he established himself in Brooklyn, as a teacher in a private school.
In Sept. 1862, he received a commission as 1st Lieut. Co. C, 176 139th N Y. Infantry, and was promoted to be Captain of the game company Dec. 16, 1863
On the 2nd of June 1864, hie regiment was engaged in an action at Cold Harbor, Va., in which he was struck by a ball and died soon after.
Served Co. C 139th New York Infantry, KIA at Cold Harbor, VA. Graduated from Yale class of 1849.
Source:
http://www.rays-place.com/cemeteries/104-9.htm∼SHELDEN CLARK BEECHER was born at Oxford, Conn,
April 7,1826.
After leaving college he was occupied nearly all his time in teaching, at various towns in the state of New York, until 1858, when, he established himself in Brooklyn, as a teacher in a private school.
In Sept. 1862, he received a commission as 1st Lieut. Co. C, 176 139th N Y. Infantry, and was promoted to be Captain of the game company Dec. 16, 1863
On the 2nd of June 1864, hie regiment was engaged in an action at Cold Harbor, Va., in which he was struck by a ball and died soon after.
age 39 y.
Served Co. C 139th New York Infantry, KIA at Cold Harbor, VA. Graduated from Yale class of 1849.
Source:
http://www.rays-place.com/cemeteries/104-9.htm∼SHELDEN CLARK BEECHER was born at Oxford, Conn,
April 7,1826.
After leaving college he was occupied nearly all his time in teaching, at various towns in the state of New York, until 1858, when, he established himself in Brooklyn, as a teacher in a private school.
In Sept. 1862, he received a commission as 1st Lieut. Co. C, 176 139th N Y. Infantry, and was promoted to be Captain of the game company Dec. 16, 1863
On the 2nd of June 1864, hie regiment was engaged in an action at Cold Harbor, Va., in which he was struck by a ball and died soon after.
Served Co. C 139th New York Infantry, KIA at Cold Harbor, VA. Graduated from Yale class of 1849.
Source:
http://www.rays-place.com/cemeteries/104-9.htm∼SHELDEN CLARK BEECHER was born at Oxford, Conn,
April 7,1826.
After leaving college he was occupied nearly all his time in teaching, at various towns in the state of New York, until 1858, when, he established himself in Brooklyn, as a teacher in a private school.
In Sept. 1862, he received a commission as 1st Lieut. Co. C, 176 139th N Y. Infantry, and was promoted to be Captain of the game company Dec. 16, 1863
On the 2nd of June 1864, hie regiment was engaged in an action at Cold Harbor, Va., in which he was struck by a ball and died soon after.
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