Downs, Henry W.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 18, credited to Pownal, VT Unit(s): 2nd VT INF, 14th VT INF, 8th MA INF Service: enl 8/27/62, m/i 10/21/62, Pvt, Co. A, 14th VT INF, wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, m/o 7/30/63; enl, Pownall, 7/8//64, m/i, Pvt, Co. B, 8th MA INF, 7/16/64, m/o 11/10/64; enl 2/20/65, m/i 2/20/65, Pvt, Co. A, 2nd VT INF, wdd, Petersburg, 3/25/65, Petersburg VA, m/o 5/22/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1844, Bennington, VT Death: 04/28/1898 Burial: Veterans Home Cemetery, Bennington, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone photographer: Carolyn Adams Findagrave Memorial #: 95667073 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, 9/26/1890, VT Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: VT (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 at Bennington Soldiers' Home DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
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Obituary
Died at Vermont Soldiers' Home, April 22, Henry W. Downs, aged 54 years. Comrade Downs served three months in Co. B, 8th Massachusetts Infantry, and one year in Co. A, 2d Vermont Infantry, and was admitted to the Home March 25, 1898, from Bennington. His burial was in the Home cemetery. Death No. 87.
Source: Bethel Courier, May 5, 1896
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.