Arthur D. Pierce was the son of Daniel Thompson Pierce and Francis Elizabeth Lewis.
"Enlisted in company G, (reorganized Third Infantry [Michigan], Sept. 3, 1864, at Pontiac, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Sept. 8, 1864. Transferred to (reorganized) Fourth Infantry, as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, Oct. 14, 1864. Died of disease in hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865."
Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 3, Third Michigan Infantry, pg. 184.
From his diary:
Murfreesboro
January SUNDAY, 1, 1865
"A beautiful day. No better but hope I shall be soon resolved with Gods help that I will serve him better and do my duty as well as possible. Saw Harry Travis had quite a pleasant talk with him. The sanitary Conditions of the Hospital very bad. little to eat and very poor food for sick at that Men grumble a great deal and they have cause to."
A few days later, his mother added the following:
January SATURDAY, 7,1865
"On this day Jan 7 My dear Son Arthur Don Pierce died in Murfreesborough Tenessee. Aged 19 yrs in the Union Army."
Diary in possession of Karl Peterson, a Pierce family descendant. Go to http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/FamilyHistory/adpierce.html
"Enlisted in company G, (reorganized Third Infantry [Michigan], Sept. 3, 1864, at Pontiac, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Sept. 8, 1864. Transferred to (reorganized) Fourth Infantry, as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, Oct. 14, 1864. Died of disease in hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865."
Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 3, Third Michigan Infantry, pg. 184.
From his diary:
Murfreesboro
January SUNDAY, 1, 1865
"A beautiful day. No better but hope I shall be soon resolved with Gods help that I will serve him better and do my duty as well as possible. Saw Harry Travis had quite a pleasant talk with him. The sanitary Conditions of the Hospital very bad. little to eat and very poor food for sick at that Men grumble a great deal and they have cause to."
A few days later, his mother added the following:
January SATURDAY, 7,1865
"On this day Jan 7 My dear Son Arthur Don Pierce died in Murfreesborough Tenessee. Aged 19 yrs in the Union Army."
Diary in possession of Karl Peterson, a Pierce family descendant. Go to http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/FamilyHistory/adpierce.html
Arthur D. Pierce was the son of Daniel Thompson Pierce and Francis Elizabeth Lewis.
"Enlisted in company G, (reorganized Third Infantry [Michigan], Sept. 3, 1864, at Pontiac, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Sept. 8, 1864. Transferred to (reorganized) Fourth Infantry, as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, Oct. 14, 1864. Died of disease in hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865."
Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 3, Third Michigan Infantry, pg. 184.
From his diary:
Murfreesboro
January SUNDAY, 1, 1865
"A beautiful day. No better but hope I shall be soon resolved with Gods help that I will serve him better and do my duty as well as possible. Saw Harry Travis had quite a pleasant talk with him. The sanitary Conditions of the Hospital very bad. little to eat and very poor food for sick at that Men grumble a great deal and they have cause to."
A few days later, his mother added the following:
January SATURDAY, 7,1865
"On this day Jan 7 My dear Son Arthur Don Pierce died in Murfreesborough Tenessee. Aged 19 yrs in the Union Army."
Diary in possession of Karl Peterson, a Pierce family descendant. Go to http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/FamilyHistory/adpierce.html
"Enlisted in company G, (reorganized Third Infantry [Michigan], Sept. 3, 1864, at Pontiac, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Sept. 8, 1864. Transferred to (reorganized) Fourth Infantry, as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, Oct. 14, 1864. Died of disease in hospital at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan. 1, 1865."
Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 3, Third Michigan Infantry, pg. 184.
From his diary:
Murfreesboro
January SUNDAY, 1, 1865
"A beautiful day. No better but hope I shall be soon resolved with Gods help that I will serve him better and do my duty as well as possible. Saw Harry Travis had quite a pleasant talk with him. The sanitary Conditions of the Hospital very bad. little to eat and very poor food for sick at that Men grumble a great deal and they have cause to."
A few days later, his mother added the following:
January SATURDAY, 7,1865
"On this day Jan 7 My dear Son Arthur Don Pierce died in Murfreesborough Tenessee. Aged 19 yrs in the Union Army."
Diary in possession of Karl Peterson, a Pierce family descendant. Go to http://www.firedragon.com/~kap/FamilyHistory/adpierce.html
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