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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 22, credited to Granville, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF
Service: enl 12/21/63, m/i 12/30/63, Pvt, Co. K, 4th VT INF, kia, 6/8/64, originally buried 6th Corps Hosp., VA
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VITALS
Birth: abt 1841, Granville, VT
Death: 06/08/1864
Burial: Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Mechanicsville, VA
Marker/Plot: A-299
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 72971264
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Lucie A., 12/8/1881, not approved; father Alvin, 2/24/1887, VT
Portrait?: Gibson Collection
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: None
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BURIAL:
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Cold Harbor National Cemetery, VA
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Obituary
Killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, June 9, by a fragment of shell, Arba Ford, son of Alvin and Lucia Ford, of Granville, Vt., a member if Co K, 4th Reg't Vt. Vols., aged 23 years. He leaves a large circle of mourning friends.
Source: Green Mountain Freeman, July 5, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.