1847 - 1864 (17 years)
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Name |
PUFFER, Elliott David |
Prefix |
Pvt. |
Birth |
21 Aug 1847 |
Sudbury, MA [1, 2] |
Gender |
Male |
Burial |
Andersonville, GA [3, 4] |
Address: Andersonville National Cemetery |
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FindaGrave |
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Milit-Beg |
30 Dec 1863 |
MA |
_COLOR |
11 |
Death |
12 Nov 1864 |
Andersonville, GA [1, 2, 4, 5, 6] |
Cause: at Andersonville Prison |
Burial |
Sunderland, MA [4] |
Address: North Sunderland Cemetery |
Person ID |
I35389 |
Puffers |
Last Modified |
28 May 2023 |
Father |
PUFFER, David, b. 5 Feb 1807, Sudbury, MA d. 21 Jun 1871, Montague, MA (Age 64 years) |
Mother |
CLARY, Harriet, b. 12 Nov 1810, Utica, NY d. 16 Dec 1878, Montague, MA (Age 68 years) |
Marriage |
18 Sep 1836 [1, 7] |
Family ID |
F9285 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- Civil War soldier and POW
Enlisted at the age of 16 years in Co. A, 34th Mass. Infantry; taken prisoner at the battle of Hanging Rock, 20 June of 1864 at Salem, VA. He probably was part of the rear guard during a retreat called for by Union Gen. David Hunter. Gen. Jubal Early, pursued Gen. Hunter and caught the rear guard with cannons. He was imprisoned, and died of starvation at Andersonville prison in Georgia.
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Sources |
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 154.
- [S512] 1673-1899: History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, page 488.
- [S597] U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962.
- [S1323] US Veteran's Gravesites, 1775-2019.
- [S593] U.S. Registers of Deaths in the Regular Army, 1860-1889.
- [S1428] US Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865.
- [S512] 1673-1899: History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, page 487, 488.
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