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Atwood, Oliver W.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 23, credited to Tunbridge, VT
Unit(s): 130th NY INF, 33rd NY LARTY, 3rd VT LARTY
Service: enl, Bennington, NY, 8/11/62, m/i, Pvt, Co. C, 130th NY INF, 8/14/62, pr Sgt, no date, dis/dsb 5/25/63, Hampton Hosp., VA; enl, Buffalo, 8/5/63, m/i, Pvt, 33rd NY LARTY, same date, dsrtd, 9/9/63; enl 9/14/63, m/i 1/1/64, PVT, 3rd VT LARTY BTRY, arrested 2/16/64 (see remarks), returned to 3rd VT Btry 6/16/64, m/o 7/18/65

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1840, Woodbury, CT
Death: 05/01/1906

Burial: Chatham Rural Cemetery, Chatham, NY
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 150265968

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 4/21/1887, CT
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: Remarks from NY Adjt Records: Tried by GCM, charge of desertion. absented himself without authority from his Batty Sept. 9/63. Arrested at Camp Barry D.C. Feby 16, 1864, having in the meantime enlisted in the 3rd Vermont Batty. The sentence is not confirmed. He is remanded to duty with the 3rd Vt. Batty. per S.O. #59 HQ Qrs Insp. of Artillery Washington, Apr 6 1864

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Chatham Rural Cemetery, Chatham, NY

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