Civil War Records of Oscar Dwelley

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
E 6th MVI Private; enl. Aug. 25, 1862; must. Aug. 31, 1862 must. out June 3, 1863 Acton moulder  

C

 56th MVI Corpl.; enl. Dec. 21, 1863; must. Dec.28, 1863 must. out July 21, 1865, as Sergt. Acton moulder

age 38;

wounded June 17, 1864, Petersburg, Va.; prisoner July 30, 1864, Petersburg, Va.; exchanged Nov. 27, 1864
MASSCW, 1:414; 4:776

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): x
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 34-35

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
E
C		 6th MVI
56th MVI		 Oct. 30, 1881 Invalid 338 929 - Mass. -

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  17 pages  (PDF*)

Grand Army of the Republic

x


Death

Date May 11, 1883
Place Boston, Mass.
Age 56 years, 8 months, 24 days
Cause

pneumonia

(Boston death register, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," vol. 348 p. 131 [image], AmericanAncestors.org).
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Additional Information

Born in Eliott, Maine. (source: Boston death register and pension file).

Oscar Dwelley, age 36, a moulder, is recorded as a resident of Boston, Mass. in the 1860 federal census, in residence with Catherine, age 30, born in Ireland, and four children, all born in Mass. ("1860 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Oscar Dwelley, age 39, a moulder, is recorded as a resident of Acton in the 1865 state census, in household with Catherine Maria Clotilda Dwelley, age 41, and four children (Lainhart, 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Censuses for Acton: 76).

The name Oscar Dwelley is included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "The Men of Acton Who Fought For The Union."

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See also:

Hosmer, The Town of Acton in the Civil War: 14, 75.

 

 

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