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Tewksbury, Augustus P.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to Woodstock, VT
Unit(s): 6th VT INF, VRC
Service: enl 9/23/61, m/i 10/15/61, PVT, Co. C, 6th VT INF, pr CPL 11/20/61, pr SGT, tr to VRC 9/1/63, m/o 10/1/64

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VITALS

Birth: 12/23/1843, Rutland, VT
Death: 07/22/1905

Burial: Arlington Heights Cemetery, Arlington Heights, IL
Marker/Plot: 135
Gravestone photographer: Car Guy/Findagrave
Findagrave Memorial #: 73012190

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 1/13/1896, IL
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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Arlington Heights Cemetery, Wheeling, IL

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Obituary

Funeral of Lucius D. Sturgeon

The funeral of Lucius D. Sturgeon, aged 76 years, who died at the St. Albans hospital Friday noon, was held at the Methodist Episcopal church at Rice hill Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. G. H. Locke, of Sheldon, officiating. A quartet composed of Mrs. W.M. Regan, Miss Peters, Mr. Peters, and Mr. King, sang. The bearers were W. M. Regan, L. D. Guard, Mr. Rice and Mr. Remington, and the burial was in the Rice Hill cemetery. Mr. Sturgeon enlisted at Alburg in Company C, 5th Regt. Vt. Vols., in the Civil War. He was wounded May 5, 1864 in the battle of the Wilderness and again October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Va. The latter wound was in the face and the loss of one eye resulted. He was a member of A. R. Hurlbut Post, No. 60, G.A.R.

Source: St. Albans Daily Messenger, November,11, 1915
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.