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Howe, Ora T.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 23, credited to Jamaica, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 12/7/63, m/i 12/7/63, Pvt, Co. G, 11th VT INF, kia, 6/12/64

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VITALS

Birth: 05/15/1840, Jamaica, VT
Death: 06/12/1864

Burial: Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Mechanicsville, VA
Marker/Plot: C-575
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 3069968

Cenotaph: East Jamaica Cemetery, Jamaica, VT
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 65298172

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Mary W., 9/1/1864; minor, 4/7/1866
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: None

Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career


DESCENDANTS

Great Granduncle of Ed Class, Vernon, VT

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Cold Harbor National Cemetery, VA

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CENOTAPH:


Tombstone

Tombstone

Cenotaph in East Jamaica Cemetery, Jamaica, VT

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Obituary

List of Casualties in the 1st Vt. Brigade from June 11, to June 29, 1864.

ELEVENTH REGIMENT

KILLED

G – Ora Howe, 12th

Source: Vermont Watchman and State Journal, July 8, 1864.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.