Sampson, Merrill T.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 21, credited to Weybridge, VT Unit(s): 5th VT INF Service: enl 8/16/61, m/i 9/16/61, SGT, Co. F, 5th VT INF, pr 2LT, Co. G, 11/22/62 (11/22/62), pr 1LT, Co. G, 3/1/63 (3/17/63), kia, Cold Harbor, 6/3/64 See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 07/12/1840, Cornwall, VT Death: 06/03/1864 Burial: Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Mechanicsville, VA Marker/Plot: C-505 Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 3070214 Cenotaph: Weybridge Hill Cemetery, Weybridge, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Alan Lathrop Findagrave Memorial #: 43792669 MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, widow Mary E., 7/23/1864; mother Acksah, 6/21/1880, not approved Portrait?: VHS Collections 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: See UVM's Digital Collections for the Civil War DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Cold Harbor National Cemetery, VA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:   Cenotaph in Weybridge Hill Cemetery, Weybridge, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
DEATH OF VERMONT OFFICERS
Captain Merrill J. Samson, Co. I, 5th Vt., was killed during one of the battles of last week.
Source: Vermont Phoenix, June 24, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
Epitaph
Epitaph
"Come, let no darkness daunt us. Let us go
Where Cornwall Village dreams not far below
And on their obelisk read how Truman Lane
Died in the Wilderness; Stillman Smith was slain
At Donelson; and at Cold Harbor
Captain Samson (sic). Then, strangely, Alva Barlow
'Hung by Guerrillas!' -- the stone does not say where.
Perhaps it's not a monument's affair.
But I'll weep -- even for Alva -- if you can weep
For him, for all, for Southern boys asleep
Like these your fathers may somewhere have known.
Donald Davidson, "Poems, 1922-1961," University of Minnesota Press, 1966, p. 54.