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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 24, credited to Monkton, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 7/29/63, m/i 10/7/63, Pvt, Co. M, 11th VT INF, kia, Petersburg, 4/2/65; originally buried Cogswell's farm
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VITALS
Birth: 12/20/1839, Hinesburg, VT
Death: 04/02/1865
Burial: Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Petersburg, VA
Marker/Plot: 4667
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 76429868
Cenotaph: East Monkton Cemetery, Monkton, VT
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Alan Lathrop
Findagrave Memorial #: 35350901
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Eliza C., 6/2/1865
Portrait?: Charles 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: Restored gravestone photo courtesy of Deborah Hardy and Jim Woodman.
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
2nd Great Granduncle of Nickie Rivers-Cheney, Ticonderoga, NY
2nd Great Granduncle of Teena Rivers Lafleche, panton, VT
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BURIAL:
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Hampton National Cemetery, VA
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CENOTAPH:
Cenotaph in East Monkton Cemetery, Monkton, VT
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