Perkins, Joseph Seabury
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Burlington, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: enl 8/29/62, m/i 9/26/62, PVT, Co. K, 1st VT CAV, pr SGT 2/14/65, m/o 6/21/65 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 09/01/1841, Unknown Death: 03/10/1868 Burial: Hillside Cemetery, Castleton, VT Marker/Plot: Not recorded Gravestone researcher/photographer: David & Gayle French Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Not found 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 (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Hillside Cemetery, Castleton, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. |
Obituary
Deaths
PERKINS. In Castleton, on the 10th ult., at the residence of his father, Doctor Joseph Perkins, Joseph Seabury Perkins, aged 26 years
The deceased was a member of Co. K, 1st Vt. Cavalry, and was in constant service in all its privations and battles until the close of the war, with the exception of a short furlough, consequent to an injury received at the battle of Cedar Creek. His fatal disease was consumption, induced by the privations of a southern service and a return to the colder climate of his native State. He was the brother of Capt. S. G. Perkins, killed at Ashby's Gap, Sept. 22, 1862, His end was peace.
Source: Rutland Daily Herald, April 13, 1868.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.