He arrived from Glasgow in New York City with his parents on June 30, 1828, and was naturalized as a United States citizen, February 18, 1853; enlisted at Watertown, New York, September 11, 1862, in the 1st Battalion, Black River Artillery (later Battery C, 4th New York Artillery, and then Battery M, 10th New York Heavy Artillery); commissioned captain, November 24, 1862, to rank from the date of enlistment; promoted major, February 4, 1863, to rank from January 14, 1863; mentioned in official dispatches; wounded in action at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, April, 1865; mustered out of service, with his regiment, at Washington, D.C., August 24, 1865; returned to Watertown, New York, then resided variously at Alexandria, New York; Rutland, New York; Chicago, Illinois, and then at Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, Australia, from 1878; died of shock suffered after an accident at the Melbourne City Baths.
[From the original research of the late Roy Parker of Sydney, with contributions by Barry Crompton of Melbourne and Bob Simpson of Beechworth, Victoria, and published, in 2000, in the volume, CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN AUSTRALIA, edited by Roy's daughter, Mrs. Virginia Crocker.]
[From the original research of the late Roy Parker of Sydney, with contributions by Barry Crompton of Melbourne and Bob Simpson of Beechworth, Victoria, and published, in 2000, in the volume, CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN AUSTRALIA, edited by Roy's daughter, Mrs. Virginia Crocker.]
He arrived from Glasgow in New York City with his parents on June 30, 1828, and was naturalized as a United States citizen, February 18, 1853; enlisted at Watertown, New York, September 11, 1862, in the 1st Battalion, Black River Artillery (later Battery C, 4th New York Artillery, and then Battery M, 10th New York Heavy Artillery); commissioned captain, November 24, 1862, to rank from the date of enlistment; promoted major, February 4, 1863, to rank from January 14, 1863; mentioned in official dispatches; wounded in action at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, April, 1865; mustered out of service, with his regiment, at Washington, D.C., August 24, 1865; returned to Watertown, New York, then resided variously at Alexandria, New York; Rutland, New York; Chicago, Illinois, and then at Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, Australia, from 1878; died of shock suffered after an accident at the Melbourne City Baths.
[From the original research of the late Roy Parker of Sydney, with contributions by Barry Crompton of Melbourne and Bob Simpson of Beechworth, Victoria, and published, in 2000, in the volume, CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN AUSTRALIA, edited by Roy's daughter, Mrs. Virginia Crocker.]
[From the original research of the late Roy Parker of Sydney, with contributions by Barry Crompton of Melbourne and Bob Simpson of Beechworth, Victoria, and published, in 2000, in the volume, CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN AUSTRALIA, edited by Roy's daughter, Mrs. Virginia Crocker.]
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