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Hart, Eli R.
MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 23, credited to Hartford, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 8/7/62, m/i 9/1/62, SGT, Co. H, 11th VT INF, pr 1SGT, 10/23/63, comn 2LT 12/28/63 (1/12/64), wdd, Cold Harbor, 6/1/64, pow, Weldon Railroad, 6/23/64, Columbia, SC, prld 3/1/65, pr 1LT, Co. M, 5/13/65 (5/25/65), m/o 6/24/65 as 2LT, Co. H
See Legend for expansion of abbreviations
VITALS
Birth: 04/21/1837, Hancock, NH
Death: 10/17/1915
Burial: Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, IN
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Laura Heckman
Findagrave Memorial #: 18027257
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes
Portrait?: Gibson Collection, Italo Collection, VHS Collections
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
Webmaster's Note: The 11th Vermont Infantry was also known as the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery; the names were used interchangably for most of its career
DESCENDANTS
Great Grandfather of Katy Sheehy, Mount Pleasant, SC
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BURIAL:
Copyright notice
Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, IN
Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.
Vermont Officers Reunion Society Collection
Courtesy Vermont Historical Society
(Gibson Collection)
(Italo Collection)
Obituary
LONDONDERRY -- Death of Eli Hart;
News has been received here of the death of Eli R. Hart, 78, of Laporte, Ind. Mr Hart was an uncle of Ed Slate of this place, and lived in Landgrove and Peru many years. He was also well known in this vicinity.
He was a veteran of the Civil War, and was 1st Lieutenant of Company H, 11th Vermont Volunteers. He went to Laporte several years ago, and held many prominent offices there. He was also a 2d Degree Mason.
Brattleboro Daily Reformer, October 20,1915
Courtesy of Deanna French
