PUFFER, Pvt. James Edward

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Westminster, MA; Address:
  Whitmanville Cemetery
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  122640029
• _COLOR: 11

Notes:

Civil War soldier, 32nd Mass. Inf., killed while climbing a wall at Gettysburg, PA. Pvt J Puffer was buried in an orchard, in front of a field hospital at York Pike. His remains should have been re-interred at Gettysburg National Cemetery.

When he was killed his sister's husband, Daniel Curtis Miles, traveled to Gettysburg and recovered the body. Daniel dug the grave himself and had the body placed in a box and loaded in a freight car. The box served as Daniel's bed at night. James was laid to rest in his hometown of Westminster, MA.

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