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Source for: Horatio Nelson Faxon, 3 NOV 1809 - 2 OCT 1862
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_MIL S28Text: Name: Horatio N Faxon , Residence: Braintree, Massachusetts Occupation: Farmer Enlistment Date: 15 August 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Massachusetts Unit Numbers: 916 916 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 15 August 1862 at the age of 38Enlisted in Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 15 August 1862.Wounded on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, MDDied of wounds Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 02 October 1862 in Hoffman House Hospl, MD
_MIL S27Page: 20th Infantry Regiment MA
Text: Date Mustered: 16 July 1865 Regiment Type: Infantry Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident: 17 Officers Died of Disease or Accident: 243 Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded: 1 Regimental Soldiers and History: List of SoldiersRegimental HistoryTWENTIETH REGIMENT MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERINFANTRYTHREE YEARS(Re-enlisted)The 20th Regt. Mass. Vol. Inf. was recruited at Camp Massasoit, Readville, in July and August, 1861. The main partof the regiment was mustered in August 28. Its colonel, William Raymond Lee, had once been a cadet at West Point. Theregiment left Camp Massasoit Sept. 4, and on the 7th reached Washington. Assigned to Gen. Lander's Brigade, Gen. Stone's Corps of Observation, it was stationed near Poolesville and was occupied in picketing the Potomac. October 21 it was engaged at Ball's Bluff, where it lost 194 officers and men, of whom 38were killed or mortally wounded. The regiment also lost Col. Lee as a prisoner. Now under Lieut. Col. F. W. Palfrey it remained at Camp Benton, near Poolesville, during the rest ofthe fall and winter picketing the Potomac from Edward's Ferryto Seneca Mills.In March, 1862, the 20th, forming a part of Dana'sBrigade, Sedgwick's Division, was sent to the Shenandoah Valley, but before the end of the month it was ordered to the Peninsula, becoming a part of Sumner's (2d) Corps. It participated in the siege of Yorktown in April, the battles ofFair Oaks, May 31, Allen's Farm, June 29, Glendale or Nelson'sFarm, June 30, and was slightly engaged at Malvern Hill, July 1. After a six weeks stay at Harrison's Landing the regimentwas brought back to Alexandria and early in September joinedthe advance toward Frederick, Md. At Antietam, Sept. 17, itwas severely engaged in the West Wood, losing 141 officers andmen, 20, including Asst. Surg. Revere, being killed or mortally wounded. At Fredericksburg it was one of the regiments of Hall's Brigade, Howard's Division that crossed theriver in boats on the 11th of December and fought in the stre
_MIL S241Text: Date of Import: 30 Apr 2009
Death source: S28Text: Name: Horatio N Faxon , Residence: Braintree, Massachusetts Occupation: Farmer Enlistment Date: 15 August 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Massachusetts Unit Numbers: 916 916 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 15 August 1862 at the age of 38Enlisted in Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 15 August 1862.Wounded on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, MDDied of wounds Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 02 October 1862 in Hoffman House Hospl, MD
Death source: S241Text: Date of Import: 30 Apr 2009
_MIL S28Text: Name: Horatio N Faxon , Residence: Braintree, Massachusetts Occupation: Farmer Enlistment Date: 15 August 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Union State Served: Massachusetts Unit Numbers: 916 916 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 15 August 1862 at the age of 38Enlisted in Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 15 August 1862.Wounded on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, MDDied of wounds Company E, 20th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 02 October 1862 in Hoffman House Hospl, MD
_MIL S241Text: Date of Import: 30 Apr 2009
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Source for: James Faxon, 1788 -
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