John Murray Atwood (1835-1925) - Find a Grave Memorial

John Murray Atwood Veteran

Birth

4 Jun 1835

Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Death

11 Oct 1925 (aged 90)

Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Burial

Oak Grove Cemetery

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Civil War Veteran - Enlisted on May 18, 1861, age 25, and mustered on May 22, 1861, into Company E, 29th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Union). Enlistment Rank: Sergeant.

Detailed for extra duty with Heavy Artillery from September 1861 to April 1862. Company Muster Roll shows Absent, sick at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in September 1862 and Absent, sick at General Hospital, Germantown, Pennsylvania, January to September 1863. Returned to duty on September 12, 1863. Reduced to ranks on October 1, 1863.

Mustered out on January 29, 1864, at Blain's Cross Roads, Tennessee. Transferred and mustered in on January 30, 1864, into Company C, 36th Regiment, Massachusetts, Infantry.

Detachment Muster-out Roll shows detained and not Mustered out on August 13, 1864, at expiration of term of service.

Source: Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War; Civil War Service Records (CMSR) - Union – Massachusetts; National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System; U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865; U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1900.

Civil War Veteran - Enlisted on May 18, 1861, age 25, and mustered on May 22, 1861, into Company E, 29th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Union). Enlistment Rank: Sergeant.

Mustered out on January 29, 1864, at Blain's Cross Roads, Tennessee. Transferred and mustered in on January 30, 1864, into Company C, 36th Regiment, Massachusetts, Infantry.

Detachment Muster-out Roll shows detained and not Mustered out on August 13, 1864, at expiration of term of service.