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Monroe, Joseph H.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 28, credited to Fair Haven, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 12/9/63, m/i 12/15/63, Pvt, Co. K, 11th VT INF, pow, Weldon Railroad, 6/23/64, Danville, d/prison 1/23/65

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1835, Whitehall, NY
Death: 01/23/1865

Burial: Danville National Cemetery, Danville, VA
Marker/Plot: F/776
Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 3267909

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, widow Harriet L., 9/8/1887, MI; minor, 5/17/1888, CO
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

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


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Danville National Cemetery, VA

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Obituary

THE VERMONT DEAD. - List of Vermont soldiers who have died at Danville, Vt., reported to the Surgeon General of Mass., by Lieutenant Col. S. A. Holman, Medical Director of the Sixth Corps. Joseph H. Monroe, K. 11, Fairhaven, Jan. 23, 1865.

Source: Vermont Journal, September 16, 1865
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.