Jessie Nathaniel Carpenter
Representing: Union
G.A.R Post
- Custer Post #6 Pierce Co. WA
Unit History
- 11th Michigan Infantry A
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nov 1913
apr 17
apr 17
This letter is from Mabel E I O'Neil Harper 1886-1972
march 61
Family History
Jessie Nathaniel Carpenter
- Birth
- Apr 1840
Constantine, St. Joseph County, Michigan, USA
- Death
- 10 Apr 1934 (aged 93–94)
Orting, Pierce County, Washington, USA
- Burial
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Orting, Pierce County, Washington, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 47.0810647, Longitude: -122.2268844
- Plot
- Section 2, Circle E, Site 17
- Memorial ID
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Enlisted and mustered in on 24 August 1861 from Centreville, St. Joseph County, Michigan, Company A, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private. He was residing in Kalamazoo County prior to his enlistment at 21 years of age; wounded in action; captured and imprisoned, with subsequent parole at Camp Chase, Ohio in September 1863; mustered out on 30 September 1864 at Sturgis, St. Joseph County, Michigan.
"Carpenter. J. N., Pt., A, 11th Michigan. Sept. 24 1864. Railroad injury of right arm. Sept. 24, 1864. Circular amputation of arm 4 inches from fold of pectoralis major. Discharged September 30, 1864." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.
Cemetery
Buried at Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery in Orting
Row: Section 2 Circle E
Site: 17