Biographies of Civil War Soldiers and Sailors of Westport, Massachusetts

by Paul A. Pannoni, Dawn Manchester

Overview

This book provides biographies of the Westport, Massachusetts, soldiers and sailors who served in the Civil War. The stories here were compiled from Civil War pension files and from vital records. Individual biographies record events about each veteran's war experiences, the battles in which they fought, their injuries, and the personal and financial difficulties they faced following the war.
Pleas of relatives and friends who submitted affidavits to support the pension application process provide new and previously unknown information about the Westporters. Documentation of the pension approvals and rejections highlight the wartime and after-war difficulties experienced by the soldier. The soldier's story is told from the time of his birth, his marriage, and his death.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161887561
Publisher:	Mountain Arbor Press
Publication date:	10/11/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

In 2005, Paul A. Pannoni codirected the Westport Cemetery Identification Group to record and register 104 historical burial grounds with the town of Westport and the Massachusetts Historical Commission. Paul led the early effort to develop the town’s cemetery website and to launch online data elements about the cemeteries and burials. Paul also assisted in the town of Westport project to digitize all historical records dating from the town’s incorporation in 1787 to about the year 1920.

Dawn Manchester has more than thirty years’ experience researching family histories. Her frequent trips to the National Archives in Washington, DC, and to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, fortified by her digital photography and computer experience, provided the information necessary to write the detailed Westporter biographies presented in this book. As a young girl she became familiar with Westport’s many cemeteries and listened to stories about her relatives told by her father.