Posnett, Daniel
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 49, credited to Fayston, VT
Unit(s): 13th VT INF
Service: enl 8/25/62, m/i 10/10/62, Pvt, Co. B, 13th VT INF, m/o 7/21/63
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VITALS
Birth: 1813, Ireland
Death: 11/25/1881
Burial: North Fayston Cemetery, Fayston, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Bob Hackett
Findagrave Memorial #: 59365984
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 5/5/1871; widow Catherine F., 12/19/1881
Portrait?: 13th History
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: 13th Vt. History off-site
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BURIAL:
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North Fayston Cemetery, Fayston, VT
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BIOGRAPHY
DANIEL PASNETT born in Ireland, enlisted from Fayston at the age of 49. He was only 5 ft. 4% in. in height and rather slim, though he bore the hardship of army life as well as could be expected considering his age and size. He had seen service in the British army. There were times when he was crippled by rheumatism to some extent but he was never away from the Company long and was with it at the last. He died in Fayston, November 25th, 1881.
Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 465