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Battles, Skirmishes and Encounters

Battles
The Wilderness
Casualties on 7 May 1864

 Casualties

[Note: this listing includes casualties only for May 7; to see casualties for other dates, select the date you want: May 5; May 6; May 8; May 9; May 10.]

Davenport, Henry D., 11, Roxbury, VT; enl 8/14/61, m/i 10/15/61, Musician, Co. H, 6th VVI, disch 11/30/62, son of CPT David B. Davenport, same Co.
enl 10/22/63, m/i 3/2/64, Musician, Co. C, 17th VVI, wdd, Wilderness, 5/7/64, dsrtd 2/28/65 (more)

Giddings, Edwin A., 19, Rutland, VT; enl 8/14/62, m/i 9/20/62, PVT, Co. F, 1st USSS, kia, Wilderness, 5/7/64

Kinsman, Henry E., 27, Royalton, VT; enl 8/20/61, m/i 9/13/61, 1SGT, Co. F, 1st USSS, pr 2LT 5/15/63 (5/22/63), pr 1LT, 11/5/63 (1/22/64), wdd, Wilderness, 5/7/64, m/o 9/13/64

Marvin, Julius H., 20, Fairfield, VT; enl 9/9/61, m/i 9/16/61, CPL, Co. C, 5th VVI, pow, Wilderness, 5/7/64, Andersonville, prld 2/28/65, m/o 3/25/65


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Legend: A.C. - Army Corps; AG - Adjutant General; AAG - Assistant Adjutant General; AAAG - Acting Assistant Adjutant General; AACS - Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence; AAQM - Acting Assistant Quartermaster; ACT - Acting; ADC - Aide-de-Camp; AIG - Assistant Inspector General; A&IG - Adjutant & Inspector General; AoP - Army of the Potomac; A.P.M. - Additional Paymaster; AQM - Assistant Quartermaster; Artfcr - Artificer; BGLR - Bugler; Bndmstr - Bandmaster; BGen - Brigadier General; Blksmth - Blacksmith; Bvt - brevet; enl - enlisted; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; com - commissioned; cred. - credited to; CS - Commissary of Subsistence; CSA - Confederate States Army; d/dis - died of disease; d/prison - died in prison*; d/svc - died in service (cause unknown); d/wds - died of wounds; dis/dsb - discharged for disability; dis/dischon - dishonorable discharge; DRMR - Drummer; dsrtd - deserted; ENG - Engineer (rank); ENGNRS - Engineers (unit); FFR - Fifer; GCM - general court martial; gsw - gunshot wound; Hosp. - Hospital; IG - Inspector General, kia - killed in action; MGen - Major General; m/i - mustered in; m/o - mustered out; Muscn - Musician; mwia - mortally wounded in action; n.d. - no date; nfr - no further record; P.M. - Paymaster; pow - taken prisoner; pr - promoted; prld - paroled; Rcrt - Recruit; red - reduced (demoted); resgd - resigned; RQM - Regimental Quartermaster; SOWD - Special Order, War Department; Stew. - Steward; tr to/from - transferred to/from; USA - US Army; USCA - US Colored Artillery; USCI - US Colored Infantry; USSS - US Sharpshooters; USV - US Volunteers; VVLB - Vermont Volunteer Light Battery; VHAC - Vermont Heavy Artillery Company; VRC - Veterans Reserve Corps; VVC - Vermont Volunteer Cavalry; VVI - Vermont Volunteer Infantry; Wgnr - Wagoner; wdd - wounded
* NOTE: d/prison includes those who died on parole as a result of imprisonment

Source of roster information: basic information on enlistments, promotions, casualties, etc. comes from the 1892 "Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers," and additional information from a variety of sources, including cemetery, pension, census and other records as well as published biographies of individuals.