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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 32, credited to Washington, VT
Unit(s): 10th VT INF
Service: enl 7/23/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. G, 10th VT INF, d/dis 9/5/63
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VITALS
Birth: 03/05/1830, Washington, VT
Death: 09/05/1863
Burial: Alexandria National Cemetery, Alexandria, VA
Marker/Plot: A/0931
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 3254681
Cenotaph: West Topsham Cemetery, Topsham, VT
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 75059983
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Cynthia K., 6/24/1864; minor, 4/30/1869
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: 10th Vt. History off-site
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BURIAL:
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Alexandria National Cemetery, VA
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CENOTAPH:
Cenotaph in West Topsham Cemetery, Topsham, VT
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In Seminary Hospital, Alexandria, Va., Sept. 5th, 1863, Smith C. Cheney, a member of Co. G, 10th Vt. Regt., aged 33 years; from Washington, Vt., "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
Source: Vermont Watchman and State Journal, April 29, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.