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White, Lucian W.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 23, credited to Middlesex, VT
Unit(s): 13th VT INF
Service: enl 9/8/62, m/i 10/10/62, Pvt, Co. B, 13th VT INF, m/o 7/21/63

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VITALS

Birth: 1838, Unknown
Death: 12/15/1907

Burial: Middlesex Center Cemetery, Middlesex, VT
Marker/Plot: 108
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Monica White
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Harriett I., 2/7/1908, VT
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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Tombstone

Middlesex Center Cemetery, Middlesex, VT

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Portrait Portrait

(Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865)

BIOGRAPHY

LUCIEN WHITE born in Middlesex, enlisted from that town. He was 23 years old. He enlisted September .1st, being one of the few who joined the Company after its organization. March 21st, '63, was detailed to serve in a R. I. battery and we can find no record of his return to the Company. Present residence, Middlesex. He married Hattie I. Carpenter.

Source: Sturtevant's Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, p. 470

Temporary Duty

Roll Of Men Temporarily Attached To Battery H, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery.

[This roll is not complete, but we have inserted the names and records of the attached men so far as obtainable.]

Clifford, Thomas, Twelfth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863; absent sick in hospital at Alexandria, Va., as per regimental return, April 14, 1863.

Ormsbee, William H., Thirteenth [Vermont] Infantry, from March 16, 1863; absent sick in hospital at Alexandria, Va., since April 24, 1863; still in hospital June, 1863, as per regimental return.

White, Lucian, Thirteenth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863; reported absent without leave since April 26, 1863; still absent without leave May 26, 1863, as per regimental return.

Connelly, J. C, Fourteenth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863; absent without leave since May 28, 1863; no further account of him as per regimental return June, 1863.

Clark, I. T., Fifteenth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863; reported sick on regimental return April 14, 1863.

Davis, Charles, Fifteenth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863, to July 10, 1863.

White, John D., Sixteenth Vermont Infantry, from March 16, 1863; badly hurt while on field drill at Chantilly, Va., June 12, 1863, being thrown on the pommel of his saddle, causing him to be ruptured. On the return of the battery to Camp Barry, June 26, 1863, he was sent to post hospital, remaining there until his regiment was mustered out of service, July 10, 1863.

Earl Fenner, The History of Battery H, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery in the War to Preserve The Union 1861-1865, (Snow & Farnham, Providence, RI, 1894), pp. 193-194

Webmaster's Note: There is no I. T. Clark in the 15th Vermont, or any Vermont unit for that matter; there were several Clarks in the regiment, but it would be impossible, without additional information, to identify him.

Obituary

Lucien White, who died recently at his home in Middlesex, served in the Civil War in Company B, 13th Vt. Vols., which won honors at "the bloody angle" at Spottsylvania. He was 64 years old and had for several years been in the employ of the Montpelier and Wells River and Central Vermont railroads in construction work.

Source: Argus & Patriot, June 21, 1905
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.