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Rowley, Calvin J.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 27, credited to Fairfax, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: enl 8/8/62, m/i 9/1/62, Pvt, Co. K, 11th VT INF, pow, Weldon Railroad, 6/23/64, Andersonville, sent to Millen GA, d/prison 4/21/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1835, Enosburgh, VT
Death: 04/21/1865

Burial: Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC
Marker/Plot: See Remarks
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Not Found
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: Soldiers who died and were interred in Millen, GA, were re-interred in Beaufort National Cemetery in unmarked graves.

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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BURIAL:

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Tombstone

Beaufort National Cemetery, SC

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Obituary

DIED

In Wilmington, N.C., while on the route to Raleigh, as a prisoner in the hands of the rebels, on the 24th of Feb., Calvin J. Rowley, of Fairfax, in his 31st year.

Source: Vermont Record, June 10, 1865
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.