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Black, James F.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 17, credited to Putney, VT
Unit(s): 8th VT INF
Service: enl 11/21/61, m/i 2/18/62, Pvt, Co. I, 8th VT INF, reen 1/5/64, pr CPL, kia, Winchester, 9/19/64

See Legend for expansion of abbreviations

VITALS

Birth: 1844, Putney, VT
Death: 09/19/1864

Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Putney, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Emily Hackett
Findagrave Memorial #: 18257771

Cenotaph: East Putney Cemetery, Putney, VT
Marker/Plot: Parker Plot
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 17864495

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Sarah A., 11/26/1864
Portrait?: VHS Collections, USAHEC off-site
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

DESCENDANTS

2nd Great Granduncle of Ronald Newton, Kennebunk, ME

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BURIAL:

Copyright notice

Tombstone

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Putney, VT

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CENOTAPH:




Cenotaph/Monument in East Putney Cemetery

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Photo

VHS - Portrait Files (FPO)

Obituary

Casualties in the 8th Vt. Regiment

The 8th Vt. Veteran volunteers were engaged in the battle near Winchester, Va., on the 19th of September. The following is the list of casualties we have to lament, during that day:

KILLED

Co. I - Corp. James L. Black, Putney

Source: St. Johnsbury Caledonian, October 14, 1864
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.