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French, John Quincy

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 19, credited to Cavendish, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 11/28/63, m/i 12/25/63, Pvt, Co. E, 1st VT CAV, kia, Wilderness, 5/5/64)

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VITALS

Birth: 06/09/1844, Cavendish, VT
Death: 05/05/1864

Burial: Proctor Cemetery, Cavendish, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Joie Finley Morris +
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Valeria B., 1/3/1883
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

DESCENDANTS

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Proctor Cemetery, Cavendish, VT

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Photo

John Gibson Collection

Obituary

VERMONT CAVALRY

The following is a list of casualties which occurred in the regiment in the fight near Mine Run, May 5th.

Killed. - Parker Cole, Co. C; Horace Hall, Co. E; John O. French, Co. K; Geo. Hemenway, Co. I.

Source: Vermont Journal, May 20, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.

Obituary

Instantly killed in battle, May 5th, J. Quincy French, youngest son of Calvin French of Proctorsville, - a member of Co. E, 1st Vt. Cavalry, aged 19 years and 11 months.

Source: Vermont Journal, June 4, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.