Civil War Records of Joel K. Hosmer

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
B 15th MVI enl. and mustered July 30, 1861; wounded June 30, 1862 at Nelson's Farm, Va. must. out July 28, 1864 Fitchburg clerk age 19

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
B 15th MVI Dec. 17, 1889 Invalid 328 661 212 887    

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  74 pages (PDF)

Grand Army of the Republic

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Death

Date November 14, 1889
Place Fitchburg, Mass.
Age 48
Cause consumption
Obituary  
Funeral  
Burial  
Survived by

single

(source:  Fitchburg death record, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org).

Additional Information

Born in Acton to parents Ephraim and Elizabeth Hosmer (source:  Fitchburg death record, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org).

Joel K. Hosmer, age 8, is recorded as an inhabitant of Acton in the 1850 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 126) with Ephraim and Elizabeth Hosmer ("1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

Joel K. Hosmer, age 14, is recorded in the 1855 Massachusetts State Census for Boxborough (dwelling no. 54/71) ("Massachusetts State Census Transcriptions for 1855 and 1865," AmericanAncestors.org).

Joel K. Hosmer, age 38, a clerk in store, is recorded as an inhabitant of Littleton, Mass. in the 1880 federal census, in household (dwelling no. 70) of Eliza Priest, age 83, and Elizabeth K. Hosmer, age 58 ("1880 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

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See also: 

Hosmer, The Town of Acton in the Civil War: 63, 94.

"Joel Kendall Hosmer," in Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Compiled by Susan Harnwell. Web: http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/ma15mvi-p/p48.htm#i277

Andrew E. Ford. The Story of the Fifteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, 1861-1864. Press of W.J. Coulter, 1898. 355. http://archive.org/details/03521439.3246.emory.edu

 

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