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36th Massachusetts Infantry

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Company Unknown

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Johanne BrownDate added 4/15/2007

Company Unknown

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Eric farrarDate added 5/24/2007

Company A

Private

Killed by a sniper near the 'Elliot Salient' before Petersburg on August 4 1864.
Contributor Carl R ComstockDate added 5/30/2009

Company B

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Robynn ThomasDate added 6/14/2006

Company B

Captain

Otis Worthington Holmes fell mortally wounded on June 17th, 1864 during the Burnside Siege of Petersburg. He later died in Washington D.C. on June 21st. He was my Great Great Uncle. If anyone knows of the 36th Infantry and their service with Burnsides Army of the Potomac IX Corps, please email me. Thanks, Burt Holmes
Contributor Burton K. HolmesDate added 5/24/2005

Company B

Private

Died on February 10, 1863. He is buried at Site 4293 at Soldiers Home National Cemetery.
Contributor Arturo E. LaraDate added 11/13/2014

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Grant CaryDate added 9/25/2006

Company D

Corporal

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Charles CheneyDate added 9/17/2007

Company D

Private

Enlisted in D Co., 36th Massachusetts Infantry July 28, 1862 as a Private, served three years during the Civil War, being mustered out June 8, 1865 as a Sergeant.
Contributor Elaine Holman BenjaminDate added 5/23/2008

Company D

2nd Sergeant

she passed as a man even though she was a womanand was very brave person i honnor all of these brave people and i thank all of u ♥♥♥♥♥ WiiTh LoTs oF lOvE ♥ ♥ ♥ eLiiZaBeTh NaVaS SaNdOvAl
Contributor eli vargasDate added 5/27/2009

Company E

Sergeant

After the war, Henry traveled to Raleigh, NC to establish Raleigh Institute. It later became Shaw University, a school founded for the education of the freed slaves.
Contributor Fritz BallardDate added 2/8/2005

Company F

1st Lieutenant

I am interested in obtaining any items that once belonged to 1st Lt A.S. Tuttle, 36th Reg, Ma. Vol's Co. F. I am also interested in any items from the 36th Reg Ma. Vol's Co F
Contributor Ron MarinoDate added 1/29/2007

Company H

Musician

Enlisted as a Musician on 09 August 1862 at the age of 21 Enlisted in Company H, 36th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 27 August 1862. Discharged Company H, 36th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 01 June 1863 in Columbia, KY
Contributor Fred RoseDate added 1/13/2009

Company H

Private

Enlisted as a Private on 11 August 1862 at the age of 27. Mustered in Company H, 36th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 27 August 1862. Died on 17 April 1863 at Baltimore, MD.
Contributor Eric StoneDate added 6/14/2010

Company H

Sergeant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Steve BillingsDate added 4/29/2008

Company H

Private

I have the enlistment record on my Ancestry.com site pamschluter is the public site. Related to my husband on his mother's side.
Contributor Pamela SchluterDate added 3/12/2014

Company H

Sergeant

NOT my ancestor--but, he deserves special mention: JEROME PIERCE, a 31 year old mechanic from Orange, Mass., enlisted as a Private in Co. H of the 36th Mass. Inf. Rgt. on 04 Aug. 1862; he was mustered-into Federal service as a Corporal on 27 Aug. 1862; he was promoted to Sergeant (date unknown). The 36th Mass. Inf. Rgt. served in Col. John Curtin's 1st Bde., BG Robert Potter's 2nd Div., MG Ambrose Burnside's 9th Corps, in the Army of the Potomac in 1864. In the Assault at Spottsylvania on 12 May 1864, SGT. PIERCE was killed in action; presumably shortly after the war, his remains were removed from the Spottsylvania battlefield, and re-interred at the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. 'On May 12, 1864, Union Army soldier Jerome Pierce was killed in the Battle of Spot[t]sylvania Courthouse. Like many thousands of other soldiers, he was buried in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery, where my great-grandfather, Andrew Birdsall, was a caretaker. A few years after the war ended, Jerome Pierce's distraught family sent my great-grandfather a letter begging him to find their son's grave for them. When he did, they sent him $100, and asked him to decorate it once a year on their behalf. Next May [1994] marks the 130th Anniversary of the death of Jerome Pierce, and the 121st time that my family has placed a wreath at his grave. We still have the $100 in a bank account, the interest fom which pays for his flowers each Spring. 'All I know about Jerome Pierce is that he was a 31 year old mechanic who left Orange, Massachusetts, to join the 36th [Massachusetts] Infantry [Regiment] of the Union Army in 1862. My family long ago lost contact with his family. For the past ten years [i.e., 1983-1993], I have been trying to find his descendants to tell them the story of my great-grandfather's promise, and to learn more about the man whose grave I've decorated all my life. //Signed// Alice Heflin Abernathy, 1000 Littlepage Street, Fredericksburg, Va. 22401.' NOTE: 'Birdsall descendant Lucille Ingalls and her grandson, Kent, keep a promise [as they were pictured decorating the grave of Jerome Pierce].' SOURCES: 1. Massachusetts, Adjutant General of. 'Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War.' Nine volumes. Norwood, Mass.: Norwood Press, 1932 (Vol. III, p. 748). 2. Regiment, Committee of the. 'History of the 36th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865.' Boston, Mass.: 1884 (pp. 171 & 369). 3. 'Yankee Magazine.' Dublin, N.H.: November 1993 (p. 26).
Contributor Douglass R. KnightHomepage N/ADate added 4/3/2009

Company I

Private

Shot though left leg at Campbell's Station, TN 16 November 1863. Recuperated at Fort Rice, Petersburg, VA. Transferred to Company G, promoted to Corporal and discharged 23 December 1864.
Contributor TylerDate added 1/31/2010

Company K

Corporal

francis enlisted august 5 1862 and was discharged as of b co. on december 23 1864.
Contributor nancy ericksonHomepage noneDate added 2/7/2011

Company K

Rank unknown

If anyone has a relative or information on the 36th Mass Co. K, would you please contact me. I am doing a report for my U.S. History class. My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was in Co.K. Thanks so much, Scott Hair
Contributor James HairDate added 5/21/2007

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