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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 38, credited to Wolcott, VT
Unit(s): 9th VT INF
Service: enl 5/31/62, m/i 7/9/62, Pvt, Co. H, 9th VT INF, m/o 6/13/65
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VITALS
Birth: 01/03/1824, Cabot, VT
Death: 04/05/1903
Burial: North Hyde Park Cemetery, Hyde Park, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Denis & Karen Jaquish
Findagrave Memorial #: 65991522
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 11/15/1883, VT; widow Mary J., 4/18/1903, VT
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: If this soldier enlisted before 9/1/62, and was with the regiment on 9/13/62, he would have briefly been taken prisoner along with the entire regiment at Harper's Ferry. Read the unit's Organization and Service for details.
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BURIAL:
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North Hyde Park Cemetery, Hyde Park, VT
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Obituary
Charles Sweeney, who has been poorly a long time, died last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Funeral services at his late residence Wednesday at 2 o'clock p.m. He was 78 years of age and respected by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Source: Morrisville News and Citizen, 8 Apr 1903
Transcribed by Deanna French