Age: 15, credited to Monkton, VT
Unit(s): 9th VT INF, 11th VT INF
Service: enl 7/8/63, m/i 7/11/63, Pvt, Co. L, 11th VT INF, dis/dsb 4/15/64; enl 8/2/64, m/i 8/2/64, Pvt, Co. C, 9th VT INF, m/o 6/13/65 (discharged April 13 1864 for being underage "this soldier is hardly strong enough for active field service as I believe him to be younger than the age given when he enlisted." CPT Darius Safford; Fort Slocum "I certify that I have carefully examined the said Henry J. Freeman of Capt. Darius Safford Co. and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of insuffiency of age fifteen years old". C. B. Park, Jr. Surg.)

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Birth: 03/14/1848, Monkton, VT
Death: 08/26/1919

Burial: Veterans Home Cemetery, Bennington, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Carolyn Adams
Findagrave Memorial #: 133258380

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: VT
(State digraphs will show that this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldier's home)

Remarks: 9th death at the Bennington Soldiers' Home in 1919.

Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career

2nd Great Granduncle of Nickie Rivers-Cheney, Ticonderoga, NY

2nd Great Granduncle of Teena Rivers Lafleche, Panton, VT

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