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Capt Melville Bradford Cook

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Capt Melville Bradford Cook

Birth
Friendship, Knox County, Maine, USA
Death
10 May 1927 (aged 88)
Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Burial
Bridgton, Cumberland County, Maine, USA Add to Map
Plot
Primrose 24
Memorial ID
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[NOTE: Military information supplied from contributor GPoppa (#46925364) via Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine;
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com]

Civil War Veteran
Enlisted on 10/19/1861 as a Private.

On 10/19/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. ME 1st Cavalry
Promoted to Corporal in 1862; promoted to sargent in 1864.
He Re-enlisted on 12/29/1864
He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1865 at Petersburg, VA

He was listed as:
* Wounded 5/2/1863 (place not stated)
* Returned 6/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
* Detailed 6/15/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)

[Additional information from historical records on ancestry.com]

Melville lived in Maine most of his life. He was a seaman at an early age and became a master mariner following the war. He married Annie C. Albee on March 10, 1864 in Hallowell, Maine. They had one child, Grace, born in 1867. Between 1900 & 1910, Melville and Annie were living in Bridgton, Maine and he was a retail merchant in a boot & shoe store. In 1920, they were both living in Bridgton with their daughter Grace and her husband.
[NOTE: Military information supplied from contributor GPoppa (#46925364) via Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine;
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com]

Civil War Veteran
Enlisted on 10/19/1861 as a Private.

On 10/19/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. ME 1st Cavalry
Promoted to Corporal in 1862; promoted to sargent in 1864.
He Re-enlisted on 12/29/1864
He was Mustered Out on 8/1/1865 at Petersburg, VA

He was listed as:
* Wounded 5/2/1863 (place not stated)
* Returned 6/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
* Detailed 6/15/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)

[Additional information from historical records on ancestry.com]

Melville lived in Maine most of his life. He was a seaman at an early age and became a master mariner following the war. He married Annie C. Albee on March 10, 1864 in Hallowell, Maine. They had one child, Grace, born in 1867. Between 1900 & 1910, Melville and Annie were living in Bridgton, Maine and he was a retail merchant in a boot & shoe store. In 1920, they were both living in Bridgton with their daughter Grace and her husband.


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