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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 37, credited to Burlington, VT
Unit(s): 5th VT INF
Service: enl 8/31/61, m/i 9/16/61, Pvt, Co. I, 5th VT INF, kia, Fredericksburg, 12/14/62, not in action 12/14/62, shud be 12/13/62??
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VITALS
Birth: abt 1824, Elmore, VT
Death: 12/14/1862
Burial: Probably buried in an unmarked grave, , VA
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer:
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Jane, 1/3/1863; minor, 2/9/1867
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: None
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BURIAL:
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Died in Virginia
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Obituary
VERMONTERS KILLED AND WOUNDED.
We find reporter the following additional names of Vermont soldiers killed and wounded at Fredericksburg:
Jas. O. Gilbert, b, 5th, killed.
Source: Rutland Daily Herald, December 18, 1862
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.