Patrick Rael
Associate Professor | Department of History | Bowdoin College
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Bowdoin Graduates Who Served with the Union


Class of 1821  
John Payne Cleaveland
Chap. 30th Mass.
   
Class of 1823  
Luther V. Bell
Surg. 11th Mass. Brig.Surg. Med.
 
Director.
   
Class of 1828  
Sanford Kingsbery
Chap 17th Ill.
   
Class of 1830  
William Sever Lincoln
Lt. Col. 34th Mass. Col. Bvt. Brig. Gen.
   
Class of 1833  
James Means
Capt. N.C. Vols.
   
Class of 1835  
William Fly
Lt. Commander U. S. N.
Luke Hill
Asst. Surg. 9th Me.
   
Class of 1836  
Jotham Donnell
Surg. 15th Me.
Alonzo Garcelon
Chief Surgeon
John William Tudor Gardiner
Maj. 2nd Cav. U. S. A. Bvt. Lt. Col.
   
Class of 1837  
Thomas Fitch Perley  
 
Brig. Surgeon Med. Inspector Gen. U. S. A.
   
Class of 1838  
Gideon Stinson Palmer
Asst. Surg. U. S. A. Surg. Brig. Surg.
Med. Director  
Francis Miller McLellan
Surg. 13th N. Y. Arty.
   
Class of 1839  
Alfred Fletcher
Capt. 24th Me.
   
Class of 1841  
Frederick Robie
Paymr. U. S. A. Bvt. Lt. Col.
   
Class of 1842  
Charles Morris Blake
Capt. 3rd U. S. C. I. Chap. U. S. A.
Edmund Alexander Chadwick
Paymr. U. S. N.
William Lyman Hyde
Chap. 112th N. Y.
   
Class of 1843  
George Washington Dyer
Maj. Paymr. U. S. V.
Abernethy Grover
Capt. 13th Me. Maj.
   
Class of 1844  
Isaac Somes Cushman
Chap. 33rd Mass.
William Henry Farnham
3rd Cal.
Samuel Freeman Gibson
Capt. A. Q. M., U. S. V.
David Robinson Hastings
Maj. 12th Me.
George Freeman Noyes
Capt. N. Y. Vols. Bvt. Maj. Lt. Col. Col.
William Wirt Virgin
Col. 23rd Me.
   
Class of 1845  
Lewis Leonard Record
Chap. 23rd Mass.
O'Neal Watson Robinson
Capt. 1st Mtd. Arty. Maj.
William Bradford Snell
Capt. 13th Me.
   
Class of 1846  
Frederic Augustus Dean
Lt. 1st Cal. Cav. 2nd Lt. 30th Me.
Charles Robert Pinckney Dunlap
Act. Asst. Surg. U.S.V.
Frederic Dummer Sewall
Col. 19th Me. Maj. V.R.C. Col.3d
 
V.R.C. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U.S.V.
Thomas Hammond Talbot
Lt. Col. 1st Me. Heavy Arty. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U.S.V.
   
Class of 1847  
William Melville Baker
Chap. 97th Ill.
Charles Benjamin Merill
Lt. Col. 17th Me.
William Robinson Pattangall
Capt. 1st Me. Heavy Art., Died, in service May 19, 1864
Spotsylvania, Va.  
   
Class of 1848  
Isaac Winslow Case
Capt. 22nd Me.
Andrew Titcomb Fitch
Surg. 79th N.Y.
William Osborne Fox
1st Me. Vols.
William Frederic Goodwin
1st Lt. 16th Inf. U.S.A. Capt.
John Jewett
Capt. 21st Wis.
Thomas Henry Marshall
Maj. 4th Me. Lt. Col. Col. 7th Me.
   
Class of 1849  
Zabdiel Boylston Adams
Asst. Surg. 7th Mass. Surg. 32nd
 
Mass. 1st Lt. Capt. 36th Mass.
 
Maj.
Augustus Jedediah Burbank
Capt. 1st Me. Cav.
William Hobson
Capt. 17th Me. Lt. Col. Bvt. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen.
Robert Richardson Thompson
2nd Lt. 13th N.H. 1st Lt. Killed in action, Fort Harrison.
   
Class of 1850  
John Pickens Abbot
9th R.I. Capt. 12th R.I.
Freeland Salmon Holmes
Asst. Surg. 4th Me. Surg. 6th Me.
Oliver Otis Howard
Col. 3rd Me. Brig Gen. U.S.V.
 
Maj. Gen. Brig. Gen. U.S.A.
 
Bvt. Maj. Gen. U.S.A.
John Smith Sewall
Chap. 8th Mass.
Patrick Henry Townsend
[?]Class of 1851
Daniel Lewis Eaton
Paymr. U. S. A. Bvt. Lt. Col. U. S. A.
Augustus Choate Hamlin
Asst. Surg. 2nd Me. Inf. Brig. Surg.
 
U. S. A. Med. Inspector. Lt. Col.
 
Bvt. Col.
Hiram Hayes
Chief Q. M. Lt. Col. U. S. A.
John Sidney Hurd
[?] Ill. Vols.
William Henry Owen
1st Lt. 3rd Me. Capt. Asst. Q. M.
 
U. S. V. Lt. Col. Chief Q. M. Col.
Charles Wentworth Roberts
Lt. Col. 2nd Me. Col. Bvt. Brig. Gen.
 
U. S. V.
   
Class of 1852  
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Lt. Col. 20th Me. Col. Brig. Gen.,
 
U. S. V. Bvt. Maj. Gen.
James Deering Fessenden
Capt. 2nd U. S. S. S. Col. U. S. C. T.
 
Brig. Gen. Bvt. Maj. Gen., U. S. V.
Nathan Cutler Goodenow
Lt. 2nd Ill. Arty. Capt. 16th Ill. Cav.
 
Lt. Col.
Henry Stone
2nd Lt. 1st Wis. Asst. Adj. Gen. U. S. V.
 
Lt. Col. 100th U. S. C. T. Bvt.
 
Col. U. S. V.
   
Class of 1853  
Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings
Chap. 15th Vt.
Stephen Foss
Surg. U. S. N.
George Stone Kimball
2nd Lt. 1st Me. Cav. Capt. Killed in
Action, Aldie.  
Joseph McKeen
Surg.
William Miltimore McArthur
Capt. 8th Me. Maj. Lt. Col. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
David Marks Place
32nd Mass. Vols.
Nathaniel Lord Upham
Chap. 35th N.J. Vols.
   
Class of 1854  
George Washington Bartlett
Chap. 14th Me. 1st Me. Cav. Killed
 
In action, McGee's Hill.
Charles Peleg Chandler
Lt. 3rd Bat. Rifles, Mass. Capt.
 
Maj. 1st. Mass. Killed in action,
 
Malvern Hill.
Charles Peter Clark
Acting Lt. U.S.A.
John Abbot Douglas
Surg. 11th Mass.
James Bonaparte Farrington
Asst. Surg. U. S. A.
Jeremiah Howard Gilman
1st Lt. 1st Arty. U. S. A. Capt. 19th
 
Inf. U. S. A. Bvt. Maj. Bvt. Lt.
 
Col. U. S. A.
Edward Beecher Smyth
Serg. 11th Kan. Cav.
Henry Clay Wood
1st Lt. 11th U. S. Inf. Capt. Maj.
 
Asst. Adj. Gen. Bvt. Lt. Col.,
 
U. S. A. Bvt. Col.
   
Class of 1855  
Samuel Roland Crocker
Q.M. Serg. 23d Me.
Stephen Melville Eaton
2nd Lt. 12th Me. 1st Lt. Capt. U.S.A.
 
Bvt. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
Charles Henry Foster
Col. 1st N.C. U.S.V.
Benjamin Browne Foster
1st Lt. 11th Me. Maj. Asst. Adj.
 
Gen. U.S.V. Bvt. Col.
Samuel Spring Gardner
Chap. U.S.V.
Thomas Albert Henderson
Adj. 7th N.H. Maj. Lt. Col. Mortally
 
Wounded, Deep Run.
Obadiah Brown Hewett
1st Lt. 2nd Neb. Cav. Capt.
Charles Edwin Shaw
Lt. Col. 25th Me.
   
Class of 1856  
Thomas Lyford Ambrose
Chap. 12th N.H. Mortally wounded.
Isaac Denny Balch
D.C. Vols.
Franklin Carsley Davis
Lt. 3rd Penn. Cav.
Enos Thompson Luce
Lt. Col. 23rd Me.
James Francis Miller
Capt. 7th Me. Asst. Adj. Gen.
Edwin Beaman Palmer
Chap. 19th Me.
Moses Mason Robinson
Capt. 12th Me.
William Henry Smyth
1st Lt. 16th Inf. U.S.A. Bvt.
 
Capt. Capt. Bvt. Maj. U.S.A.
Ewdward William Thompson
Capt. 5th Me. 1st Mtd. Arty. 12th
 
Me. Bvt. Lt. Col.
George Augustus Wheeler
Surg. U.S.V. Bvt. Lt. Col.
Isaac Henry Wing
1st Lt. 4th Wis.
   
Class of 1857  
William Henry Anderson
Asst. Paymr. U.S.N.
Samuel Clifford Belcher
Capt. 16th Me. Maj.
Louis Orsmond Brastow
Chap 14th Vt.
Edward Thurston Chapman
Act. Asst. Paymr. U.S.N. Killed
 
in action, James River.
John Nelson Fuller
11th Ill. Vols.
Henry Sidney Hagar
1st Lt. 7th Me. Adj.
John Burgin Haselton
Act. Asst. Paymr. U.S.N.
Charles Hamlin
Maj. 18th Me. 1st Me. Heavy Arty.
 
Asst. Adj. Gen. U.S.V. Bvt. Lt.
 
Col. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U.S.V.
John Barrett Hubbard
1st Lt. 1st Me. Mtd. Arty. Capt.
 
Asst. Adj. Gen. U.S.V. Killed in
 
action, Port Hudson.
Thomas Hanlin Hubbard
Adj. 25th Me. Lt. Col. 30th Me. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U.S.V.
Thomas Freeman Moses
Asst. Surg. U.S.V.
Nathaniel Augustus Robbins
4th Me. 2nd Lt. Q.M.
Gustavus Augustus Stanley
8th Ill. Cav. Capt. 28th Me. 2nd Me.
 
Cav.
Lyman Sawin Strickland
1st Lt. 16th Inf. U.S.A. Capt.
 
Bvt. Maj. U.S.A.
James Charles Strout
22nd Mass.
   
Class of 1858  
George Adams Bright
Asst. Surg. U. S. N.
Samuel Brown
Capt.16th Ct. Killed in action, Antietam.
Daniel Coffin Burliegh
Act. Asst. Surg. U. S. N.
Sewall Chandler Charles
12th Me.
Jonathan Prince Cilley
Capt. 1st Me. Cav. Maj. Lt. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
Franklin Mellen Drew
15th Me. Capt. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
 
Bvt. Col.
Francis Fessenden
Capt. 19th Inf. U. S. A. Col. 25th
 
Me. 30th Me. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
 
Bvt. Maj. And Lt. Col. Bvt. Brig.
 
Gen. U. S. A. Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S.
 
Maj. Gen. U. S. V. 28th Inf. U. S.
 
A. Brig. Gen. U. S. A.
George Fred Granger
1st Lt. 9th Me. Capt. Maj. Lt. Col.
 
Col. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
Lysander Hill
Capt. 20th Me.
Charles Knapp Hutchins
Capt. 16th Me. Killed in action,
 
Fredericksburg.
William Henry Savage
Capt. 17th Me. 2nd Lt. 7th Me. 1st
 
Lt. 1st Vet. Vols. Bvt. Capt.
Ellis Spear
Capt. 20th Me. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
 
Col. Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
Solomon Bates Starbird
Lt. [?]
James Henry Tallman
2nd Lt. 3rd Me. Brig. Q. M.
Henry Goddard Thomas
Capt. 5th Me. Capt. 11th Inf. U. S. A.
 
Col. 79th U. S. C. T. 19th U. S. C. T.
 
Bvt. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col. Brig. Gen.
 
U. S. V. Bvt. Col. And Brig. Gen.
 
U. S. A. Bvt. Maj. Gen. U. S. V.
Andrew Jackson Thompson
Surg. 8th N. H. Med. Director
   
Class of 1859  
John Duguid Anderson
1st Lt. 1st Wis. Lt. Arty. Priv. 32nd
 
Me. 1st Lt. 3rd Me.
Charles Henry Butterfield
Maj. 91st Ind. Lt. Col.
John Calhoun Chamberlain
Chap. 11th Me.
Henry Milton Folsom
2nd Lt. 7th Me.
Charles Henry Howard
3rd Me. 2nd Lt. 61st N. Y. 11st Lt.
 
Maj. Lt. Col. Bvt. Col. Col. 124th
 
U. S. C. T. Bvt. Brig. Gen.
Charles Winthrop Lowell
Capt. 80th U. S. C. T. Maj. Bvt.
 
Lt. Col. Bvt. Col. U. S. V.
George Whitney Merrill
Capt. 44th Ind. [?] 60th Ind. [?]
 
48th U. S. C. T. Maj. 60th Ill. [?]
Alfred Mitchell
Asst. Surg. 9th Me.
George Owen Moody
Asst. Surg. U. S. V.
Edward Mussey Rand
Adj. 27th Me.
Howard Malcolm Randlett
Asst. Surg. 64th N.Y. U. S. N.
Francis Wallingford Sabine
2nd Lt. 11th Me. 1st Lt. Capt.
 
Mortally wounded, Deep Run.
Caleb Saunders
6th Mass. 1st Lt. 1st Mass. Hvy. Arty.
George Webster
2nd Lt. 12th Me. 1st Lt. Maj. 77th
 
U. S. C. T. Bvt. Lt. Col. U. S. V.
Albert Purington Whittemore
14th Ill.
Henry Parker Worcester
2nd Lt. 3rd Me. 1st Lt. Capt.
   
Class of 1860  
John Francis Appelton
Capt. 12th Me. Col. U.S.C.T. Bvt.
 
Brig. Gen. U.S.V.
Nicholas Emery Boyd
Inf. 25th Me.
Albert Williams Bradbury
2nd Lt. 1st Me. Mtd. Arty. 1st Lt.
 
Capt. Maj. 1st Me. Lt. Arty. Bvt.
 
Lt. Col. Bvt.Col. U.S.V.
Harlan Page Brown
2nd Lt. 7th Me. Capt. Killed in
 
Action, Antietam.
John Marshall Brown
Lt. Col. 32d Me. Bvt. Col. Bvt. Brig.
 
Gen. U.S.V.
Alvan Felch Bucknam
2nd Lt. 25th Me. Asst. Surg. 2nd Mass
 
Cav.
Horace Harmon Burbank
27th Me. Q.M. Serg. 1st 32d
 
Me. Capt. 31st Me.
George Carey
1st Lt. 1st Me. Cav. Capt.
Fuller Gove Clifford
Inf. 28th Me.
Simeon Adams Evans
Asst. Surg. 14th Me.
Seth Chase Farrington
Capt. 12th Me. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
 
U.S.V.
Woodbury George Frost
Act. Asst. Surgon, U.S.N.
Charles William Gardiner
Corp. 3rd Me. Capt.
William Agustus Garnsey
Serg. 12th Me. Capt. 2nd La.
David Hale
23rd Me.
William Dudley Haley
2nd Lt. 3d Me. Q.M.
Edwin Alphonso Harlow
Inf. 4th Kan.
William Lewis Haskell
1st 7th Me. Capt. Mortally
 
Wounded, Antietam.
Granville Parker Hawes
1st Lt. 128th N.Y. Capt.
James Henry Hobbs Hewett
8th Me. Q.M. Serg. 2nd Lt. 1st Lt.
 
Adj. Capt. Bvt. Maj. U.S.V.
Frederic Augustus Kendall
2d Lt. 4th N.H. 1st Lt. Capt. Capt.
 
U.S.C. Arty. 2nd Lt. 40th Inf.
 
U.S.A. Bvt. Capt. U.S.A.
Ezekiel Robinson Mayo
1st Lt. 1st Me. Heavy Arty. Capt.
 
Capt. 1st Lt. Arty.
Charles Sullivan McCobb
4th Me. 2nd Lt. Killed in Action,
 
Gettysburg.
James William North
Asst. Surg. 107th U.S.C.T.
Walter Stone Poor
7th N.Y. 1st Lt. Capt. Lt. Col.
 
2nd N.C. Lt. Col. 14th U.S.C.
 
Heavy Arty.
Thomas Brackett Reed
A. Asst. Payr. U.S.N.
Abram Newell Rowe
25th Me. 2nd Lt. 1st Lt. Arty. Capt.
 
Bvt. Maj. U.S.V.
Adelbert Burge Twichell
5th Me. 2nd Lt. 1st Lt. Arty. Capt.
 
Bvt. Maj. U.S.V.
Francis Williard Webster
18th Me. Capt. 3rd U.S.C.T.
   
Class of 1861  
Wendell Abraham Anderson
Surg. 3rd. Md.
Edward Larke Appleton
2nd Lt. 1st Arty. U. S. A. 1st Lt.
Nelson Perley Cram
Serg. 11th Me.
William Winslow Eaton
16th Me. Asst. Surg. Surg.
Edwin Emery
17th Me. 2nd Lt.
Lorin Farr
Serg. 19th Me. 2nd Lt. 1st Lt. Capt.
Samuel Fessenden
2nd Lt. 1st Me. Lt. Arty. 1st Lt.
 
Mortally wounded, Manassas
Albion Howe
2nd Lt. 14th N. Y. Heavy Arty. Maj.
 
Bvt. Lt. Col. U. S. V.
Charles Oliver Hunt
1st Me. Lt. Arty. 2nd Lt. 1st Lt.
Thomas Worcester Hyde
Capt. 7th Me. Maj. Lt. Col. Col.
 
1st Me. Vet. Vols. Bvt. Brig. Gen.
 
U. S. V.
Samuel Jordan
A. Asst. Paymr. U. S. N.
George Beaman Kenniston
1st Lt. 5th Me. Capt. 2nd U. S. C.
Edward Payson Loring
1st Lt. 13th Me. Capt. 10th U. S. C.
 
Heavy Arty. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
Augustus Nathaniel Lufkin
2nd Me. Corp. 20th Me. Capt. 45th
 
U. S. C. T.
Stephen Hart Manning
Q. M. 1st Me. 1st Lt. and Q. M. 5th
 
Me. Capt. And Chf. Q. M. Bvt.
 
Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col. Lt. Col. Col.
 
Bvt. Brig. Gen. U. S. V.
William Wilson Morrell
2nd Lt. 20th Me. 1st Lt. Capt. Killed
 
In action, Spottsylvania.
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr.
Asst. Surg. 1st Me. Vet. Vols.
Charles Bean Rounds
30th Me. 2nd Lt. 31st Me. 1st Lt.
 
Capt.
Edward Simonton
20th Me. 2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. 1st U. S. C. T.
 
1st Lt. Capt. Bvt. Maj. Bvt. Lt. Col.
 
U. S. V.
Henry Sutton Burgess Smith
Asst. Surg. 32nd Me.
George Eastman Stubbs
Act. Asst. Surg. U. S. V. Bvt. Capt.
 
U. S. V.
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