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Wadsworth, John

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 22, credited to Richford, VT
Unit(s): 1st VT CAV
Service: enl 8/22/62, m/i 9/29/62, Pvt, Co. L, 1st VT CAV, dsrtd, Lewinsville, 2/18/63; joined White's Cavalry Btln (CSA), pow, Mt. Jackson, 11/16/63, sent to Fort Delaware; sent to Washington, DC for trial, nfr

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1840, Unknown
Death: 08/30/1873

Burial: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, MA
Marker/Plot: Lot 137, Section 11, Mistletoe Path
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: Hart, Onell; Hart, Abel
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: "In a gang of rebel prisoners recently brought to Fort Delaware, twenty deserters from our army were found. Among them was John Wadsworth, alias Abel Hart, 1st Vermont Cavalry. He had joined White's rebel cavalry". - Caledonian, 2/5/1864

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Cedar Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, MA

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