Enlisted on 31 July, 1862 as a 21 year old at Worchester, Otsego County, New York into the 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, later also referred to as "Upton's Regulars", for a term of three years.
Mustered into Capt. John S. Kidder's Co. I on 23 August 1862 at Camp Schuyler, near Herkimer, New York.
Saw limited action at Crompton's Gap near Antietem and then onto Fredericksburg in December where the Union forces were badly beaten and repuled. They retreated back across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg and went into winter camp in Stafford County at White Oak Church. Was a participant in the now famous "Burnside Mud March" of January 1863.
He died at White Oak Church of liver problems.
Initially troops who died in that area were buried in that area. After the end of the war and creation of the national cemeteries remains were moved there.∼Co I, 121 NY Inf.
see bio for source, p 55.∼
Mustered into Capt. John S. Kidder's Co. I on 23 August 1862 at Camp Schuyler, near Herkimer, New York.
Saw limited action at Crompton's Gap near Antietem and then onto Fredericksburg in December where the Union forces were badly beaten and repuled. They retreated back across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg and went into winter camp in Stafford County at White Oak Church. Was a participant in the now famous "Burnside Mud March" of January 1863.
He died at White Oak Church of liver problems.
Initially troops who died in that area were buried in that area. After the end of the war and creation of the national cemeteries remains were moved there.∼Co I, 121 NY Inf.
see bio for source, p 55.∼
Enlisted on 31 July, 1862 as a 21 year old at Worchester, Otsego County, New York into the 121st New York Volunteer Infantry, later also referred to as "Upton's Regulars", for a term of three years.
Mustered into Capt. John S. Kidder's Co. I on 23 August 1862 at Camp Schuyler, near Herkimer, New York.
Saw limited action at Crompton's Gap near Antietem and then onto Fredericksburg in December where the Union forces were badly beaten and repuled. They retreated back across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg and went into winter camp in Stafford County at White Oak Church. Was a participant in the now famous "Burnside Mud March" of January 1863.
He died at White Oak Church of liver problems.
Initially troops who died in that area were buried in that area. After the end of the war and creation of the national cemeteries remains were moved there.∼Co I, 121 NY Inf.
see bio for source, p 55.∼
Mustered into Capt. John S. Kidder's Co. I on 23 August 1862 at Camp Schuyler, near Herkimer, New York.
Saw limited action at Crompton's Gap near Antietem and then onto Fredericksburg in December where the Union forces were badly beaten and repuled. They retreated back across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg and went into winter camp in Stafford County at White Oak Church. Was a participant in the now famous "Burnside Mud March" of January 1863.
He died at White Oak Church of liver problems.
Initially troops who died in that area were buried in that area. After the end of the war and creation of the national cemeteries remains were moved there.∼Co I, 121 NY Inf.
see bio for source, p 55.∼
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