Civil War Records of Mathew/Matthew McKinney

Service

Co. Regiment/Ship From To Residence Occupation Notes
E 26th MVI Private; enl. and must. Aug. 12, 1862 died Sept. 25, 1863 Acton farmer

age 26;

died of disease, Berwick City, La.

Source: MASSCW, 3:91.
Record of the Massachusetts Volunteers, 2:509 lists him as "Matthew McKenna", residence or credited to Boston.

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): 4 Pages (PDF*)
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): x

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
               

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  x

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date September  25, 1863
Place regimental hospital, Berwick City, La.
Age  
Cause chronic pleurisy
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial  
Survived by  

Additional Information

Born in Lincolnville, Maine (source: service record).

Mathew McKinney, age 24, a farm laborer, is recorded as a resident of Lincolnville, Maine (household 212/235) in the 1860 federal census (source:  1860 United States Federal Census. In: Ancestry.com [online database]).

The death of Mathew McKinney, Soldier in United States Service, is recorded in the 1863/64 annual report for the Town of Acton, p. 18.

Name included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "Our Honored Dead."

 

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