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Brainerd, Herbert

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 25, credited to St. Albans, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 8/16/62, m/i 9/29/62, QMSGT, Co. L, 1st VT CAV, pr Rgtl QMSGT, 9/1/63, pr QM, 4/1/64 (4/29/64), resgd 7/26/64 [College: UVM 58]

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VITALS

Birth: 12/25/1837, Unknown
Death: 02/26/1900

Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, VT
Marker/Plot: 21
Gravestone photographer: Kathy Valloch
Findagrave Memorial #: 13912073

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 8/291888, VT; widow Anna M., 3/27/1900, VT
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: UVM 58
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

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Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, VT

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Herbert Brainerd

Springfield Republican
March 2, 1900
The funeral of Herbert Brainerd, who died Monday night at St. Albans, was held there yesterday afternoon. He had represented his country and town in the state Senate and House. He was a veteran of the civil war and had been post and department commander of the Grand Army. For many years had been a prominent merchant in St. Albans and an official of the Central Vermont railroad. He leaves, besides a widow, three children, three brothers and three sisters.

Contributed by Tom Boudreau.