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Little, Arthur

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 26, credited to Ludlow, VT
Unit(s): 11th VT INF
Service: comn Chaplain, 11th VT INF, 3/20/63 (4/1/63), m/o 6/24/65, Congregationalist [College: DC 60]

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VITALS

Birth: 05/24/1837, Webster, NH
Death: 04/11/1915

Burial: Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA
Marker/Plot: Section Mt W
Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 1413718199

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 7/20/1904, MA; widow Elizabeth W., 9/25/1916, MA
Portrait?: VHS Collections, MOLLUS
College?: DC 60
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: Died in Boston.

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

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Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA

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Photo

VHS - Reunion Society Collection

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VHS - Portrait Files (FPO)

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MOLLUS

Arthur Little

St. Albans Daily Messenger; April 15, 1915
DR. ARTHUR LITTLE DIES
Chaplain of Vermont Artillery Regiment in Civil War.
Newton, Mass., April 12. - Dr. Arthur Little, a widely known Congregational minister, is dead here. For 23 years he was pastor of the Second Congregational church in Dorchester. During the Civil War he was chaplain of the First Vermont heavy artillery. In 1883 he was Moderator of the National Council of Congregational churches. He was a delegate to the International Council of Congregational in London in 1891.

Courtesy of Tom Boudreau