Dow, Lester K.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 23, credited to Duxbury, VT Unit(s): 13th VT INF Service: enl 8/25/62, m/i 10/10/62, Pvt, Co. B, 13th VT INF, pr CPL 2/25/63, wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, m/o 7/21/63 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 01/06/1836, Duxbury, VT Death: 12/15/1917 Burial: South Duxbury Cemetery, Duxbury, VT Marker/Plot: No_Marker Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 113111951 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 5/13/1889, VT Portrait?: 13th History 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: Buried at this cemetery per 'Duxbury in the Civil War' - 1890 - Living in Plainfield, VT - 13th Vt. History off-site DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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BIOGRAPHY
LESTER K. DOW
Enlisted from Duxbury, in which town he was born, June 3rd, 1838. His father was born in Tuftonboro, N. H., and was killed on board the steamer Westfield in New York harbor July 30th, 1871, buried at South Duxbury. His mother Betsey (Phelps) Dow, was born in Colebrook, Conn., and died in Duxbury September 18th, 1850, buried at South Duxbury. Comrade Dow was promoted from private to corporal February 25th, 1863, which office he held through his term of service. At the battle of Gettys- burg he was wounded in the foot by a piece of spent shell, just as the regiment started on its charge July 2nd. This same piece of shell after striking Corporal Dow's foot bounded and hit his comrade B. A. Fisk in the knee. Since his discharge he has lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. Present address, Plainfield, Vt.
Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 476
Obituary for Lester K. Sat, Dec 15, 1917 – 4 · Montpelier Evening Argus (Montpelier, Vermont) · Newspapers.com