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Perkins, Eben S.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 29, credited to Walden, VT
Unit(s): 13th VT INF, 1st VT CAV, 8th ME INF
Service: enl 9/25/61, m/i 11/19/61, Pvt, Co. D, 1st VT CAV, dis/dsb 2/18/62; enl 9/8/62, m/i 10/10/62, Pvt, Co. H, 13th VT INF, dis/dsb 3/29/63; enl 12/1/64, resident VT, m/i, Pvt, Co. I, 8th ME INF, 12/1/64, awol, in arrest 1/18/66

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1832, Warren, VT
Death: 03/19/1909

Burial: Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery, Orting, WA
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Kenyon Luce
Findagrave Memorial #: 5551492

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 3/7/1884, CA
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: CA, WI
(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: 13th Vt. History off-site

DESCENDANTS

2nd Great Granduncle of Llew Goodfield, Carpinteria, CA

2nd Great Granduncle of Lawrence A. Perkins, West Springfield, MA

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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery, Orting, WA

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Biography

EBEN S. PERKINS volunteered from the town of North Hero, Vt., September 8th, 1862 at the age of 30, and joined Company H by transfer. Discharged March 29th, 1863.

Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 664