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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 17, credited to Fairfax, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF
Service: enl 3/5/62, m/i 4/12/62, Pvt, Co. H, 2nd VT INF, reen 4/18/64, kia, 6/8/64, originally buried Bowles Farm Va
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VITALS
Birth: 01/16/1822, Fairfax, VT
Death: 06/08/1864
Burial: Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Mechanicsville, VA
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 3069870
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Mary B., 9/1/1864
Portrait?: Unknown
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: WPA Graves Registration Card indicates that there is a cenotaph at Fairfax Plains Cemetery in Vermont. The plots which include his wife, children and parents were checked and no cenotaph was found.
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BURIAL:
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Cold Harbor National Cemetery, VA
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Obituary
REPORTS FROM VERMONT TROOPS
List of Casualties in the First Vermont Brigade since June 4th, 1864.
SECOND REGIMENT
Killed
Co. H - Joseph C. Felton, Fairfax.
Source: Vermont Journal, July 2, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.