Brainerd, Joseph Partridge
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 22, credited to St. Albans, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: enl 8/15/62, m/i 9/29/62, Pvt, Co. L, 1st VT CAV, wdd, Craig's Church, 5/5/64, pow, Craig's Church, 5/5/64, Andersonville, d/prison 9/12/64 (scorbutus) [College: UVM 62] See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 06/27/1840, St. Albans, VT Death: 09/12/1864 Burial: Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville, GA Marker/Plot: H/8591 Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 8276036 Cenotaph: Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kathy Valloch Findagrave Memorial #: 5901038 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found Portrait?: Unknown College?: UVM 62 Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Andersonville National Cemetery, GA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:   Cenotaph in Greenwood Cemetery, Saint Albans, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
The death of Mr. Joseph Partridge Brainerd, at Andersonville, Ga., at the age of 22 years, is one of the saddest incidents we have reported. He was wounded inaction and had well nigh recovered when the brutal treatment he received from the rebels aggravated the case and he died after weeks of undoubtedly great mental and physical suffering. He was the eldest son of Hon. Joseph H. Brainerd of St. Albans, a graduate of the University of Vermont, a fine scholar, a young man of the tenderest of sensibilities and rarest modesty, of strict integrity and remarkable conscientiousness. He enlisted because he felt it to be his duty. He died a martyr to the noblest cause that he could enlist his energies.
Source: Burlington Free Press, Dec. 30, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.