Bruce, Horatio P.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 28, credited to Woodbury, VT Unit(s): 2nd USSS Service: enl 9/27/61, m/i 11/9/61, Pvt, Co. E, 2nd USSS, reen 12/21/63, pr CPL 2/8/62, red 7/31/63, mwia, 5/31/64, d/wds 6/21/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1830, Vermont Death: 06/20/1864 Burial: Woodbury Center Cemetery, Woodbury, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: Denis & Karen Jaquish Findagrave Memorial #: 165224984 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, mother Clarissa, 8/12/1868 Portrait?: White Collection, Findagrave College?: Not Found 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: Died in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, DC, of a gunshot wound to the left lung; originally interred in Soldier's Home National Cemetery (Block 1, Range 3, Grave 21), 6/22/64; next of kin listed as J. L. Bruce, Woodbury; exhumed 10/27/1864. See UVM's Digital Collections for the Civil War DESCENDANTS 3rd Great Grandfather of Patricia M. Rivers, Bakersville, NC (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Woodbury Center Cemetery, Woodbury, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
At Washington Armory Square Hospital, June 20th, Horatio P. Bruce, son of John and Clarissa Bruce, of Woodbury, Vt., Co. C, United States Sharpshooters, aged 32 years, 11 months and 13 days.
Source: Green Mountain Freeman, July 19, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.