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Note N1952 Index
Wilson enlisted as a Private on 21 August 1862, and served in Co. E, 18th Maine Infantry Regiment, and Co. E, 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment. He was killed in action 19 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia.
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Note N1955 Index
Sewell served in the Civil War as a Corporal in Co. D, 14th Maine Infantry Regiment. He was killed in action in Louisiana. On 19 September 1862, Mary filed a Widow's Application ( # 2124) for a Civil War Pension (Certificate # 2171).
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Note N1956 Index
Albert was a carriage maker in Abbot, Maine.
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Note N1957 Index
James served in the Civil War as a member of Co. F of the famous 20th Maine Infantry Regiment. He enlisted as a Private on 29 August 1862, at the age of 33. He was wounded at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863, and was discharged on 15 June 1864. He had been promoted to Sergeant in 1863.
He was a blacksmith in Foxcroft, Maine.
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Note N1959 Index
George served as a Private in Co. G, 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment. He enlisted 28 May 1861, was wounded at Yorktown, Virginia, in May of 1862, and died 10 June 1862. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
On 28 July 1862, Jemima filed a Widow's Application (# 1193) for a Civil War Pension (Certificate # 154).
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Note N1960 Index
Charles was a carpenter in Cambridge, Somerset County, Maine.
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Note N1962 Index
George was a farmer in Abbot, Maine.
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Note N1963 Index
Hester was the youngest of 13 children.
William was a farmer and carpenter. They lived in Necedah, Juneau County, and Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin, for a few years, then moved on to the State of Washington after 1872. At the time of the 1880 Census, they were living on their farm in District #4 of Columbia County, Washington (T-9, Roll 1396, Volume 1, Page 167C, Dwelling 70, Family 72). In 1900, they were in Asotin County, the southeastern-most county in Washington, just across the Snake River from Lewiston, Idaho.
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Note N1965 Index
Miles was a Private in Co. B, 8th Maine Infantry Regiment, enlisting 18 August 1862. He died 7 June 1864 in Washington, DC, from wounds received at Cold Harbor, Virginia. Miles is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA (ROLL OF HONOR, 1 [op. cit.], 169). He served in the same unit as did his brother, Levi, and two of his cousins, William and George.
The 8th Maine Infantry Regiment was organized at Augusta 7 September 1861, to serve three years. That unit had already seen quite a lot of action before the four cousins from Maine (along with 300 other "well drilled and disciplined recruits") joined the regiment in November of 1862, while it was stationed near Savannah, Georgia. From then until the spring of 1864, the regiment mainly performed guard duty at Hilton Head and Beaufort, South Carolina, and at Jacksonville, Florida. Needless to say, the southern climate proved to be the undoing of several of the Maine men (Miles' cousin, George Washington Scribner, was one who received a disability discharge [9 May 1863] while in the South).
In April of 1864, the regiment was transferred to Virginia, and took part in several battles there: Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, to name only a few. It was at the Battle of Cold Harbor that Miles suffered the wounds which eventually took his life. 78 of his comrades died there, also.
Following Miles' death, Eliza married Miles' half 1st cousin, Francis ("Frank") W. Scribner, September 1865 in Patten. They moved to Minnesota, where they lived in Maine Twp., Otter Tail County.
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Note N1966 Index
In 1880, Charles and Ardelia were living in Gardiner, where he was working as a clerk in a "junk store." Ardelia died of pneumonia.