Civil War Records of Joshua W. Carr

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
H
 59th MVI
 Private; enl. March 10, 1864; must. March 12, 1864 transf. June 1, 1865, as Corpl. to 57th Mass. Inf. Marlboro [credit] farmer

age 18;

wounded May 24, 1864, North Anna River, Va.
H 57th MVI Corpl., transf. June 1, 1865 from 59th Mass. Inf. must. out July 30, 1865 Marlboro

farmer

 

age 18
MASSCW, 5:81, 4:858

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

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
H 59th MVI
57th MVI		 August 18, 1890 Invalid 928 884 1 017 872 Mass. C2-551-620

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  9 pages (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

Recorded as member no. 128 in the membership roster of Isaac Davis Post No. 138 G.A.R., Acton, Massachusetts (Acton Memorial Library archives, 92.2.1). 


Death

Date December 24, 1919
Place Maynard, Mass.
Age 74
Cause heart trouble
Obituary

Concord Enterprise, Dec. 31, 1919

Maynard News, Dec. 26, 1919
Funeral  
Burial Brookside Cemetery, Stow
Survived by Edith M. Carr

Additional Information

Brown, Hometown Soldiers: 242-245.

 

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