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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 21, credited to Landgrove, VT
Unit(s): 5th VT INF
Service: enl 8/6/61, m/i 9/16/61, Pvt, Co. E, 5th VT INF, kia, Savage's Station, 6/29/62 (gsw, head)
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VITALS
Birth: 1840, Landgrove, VT
Death: 06/29/1862
Burial: Seven Pines National Cemetery, Sandston, VA
Marker/Plot: Unmarked Grave
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Ledoux
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
Cenotaph: Old Cemetery, Landgrove, VT
Marker/Plot:
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, father William A., 5/31/1877
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: Epitaph: "Henry E., Grandson of David / Shot Dead in Battle at Savage's Station, VA. / June 22, 1862 Ae 21Y 1m 26d."
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BURIAL:
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Seven Pines National Cemetery, VA
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CENOTAPH:
Cenotaph in Old Cemetery, Landgrove, VT
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Killed on the battlefield in front of Richmond, Va., by a rifle shot through the head, June 20th, Henry E. Wiley, of Landgrove, aged 21 years, member of Co. E, 5th Reg't Vt. Vols.
Source: Vermont Journal, Nov. 1, 1862
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.