Vermont Civil War, Lest We Forget

Individual Record

Ford, Hadley P.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 17, credited to Brandon, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF
Service: enl 10/17/61, m/i 10/23/61, Pvt, Co. G, 2nd VT INF, reen 12/21/63, mwia, 5/18/64, d/wds 5/18/64, brother of Charles and John of Brandon

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VITALS

Birth: 08/06/1845, Rutland, VT
Death: 05/18/1864

Burial: Pine Hill Cemetery, Brandon, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Jennifer Snoots

Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Unknown
Portrait?: Catherine Keeler
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: Brother of Charles and John, see photos below

DESCENDANTS

Great Granduncle of Catherine A. Keeler, Placerville, CA

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BURIAL:
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Tombstone

Pine Hill Cemetery, Brandon, VT
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and other veterans who may be buried there.

The Ford Brothers of Brandon

Charles A. Ford
Private, Co. H, Fifth Vermont Infantry
Killed in Action at Petersburg, VA
2 April 1865

Hadley P. Ford
Private, Co. G, Second Vermont Infantry
Mortally Wounded in Action, Spotsylvania
18 May 1864

John S. Ford
Private, Co. C, Tenth Vermont Infantry
Killed in Action at Orange Grove (Mine Run), VA
27 November 1863

Courtesy of Cathy Keeler, Placerville, CA, the great-grandniece of all three.

Obituary

Headquarters, 1st Brigade -- Between Hanover C. H. and Richmond -- May 30, 1864: casualty in First Vermont Brigade -- May 7, 1864 -- May 23, 1864 -- Co. G. Hadley P. Ford -- Brandon -- May 18, ankle severely -- since died.

Rutland Weekly Herald, June 23, 1864
Courtesy of Deanna French

Source: VermontCivilWar.Org Database
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