Joseph Durgin
Joseph Durgin was born around 1819 in Northwood, New Hampshire, to Daniel Durgin and Abigail Keniston. His father was a farmer. Durgin probably grew up and attended school in Northwood, and he married a woman named Sarah sometime before 1850. Durgin worked as a shoemaker, and by 1850, he owned $325 of real estate. He enlisted in the Union army on September 16, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company A of the 5th New Hampshire Infantry on October 12. According to his enlistment records, he was 5 feet, 11ΒΌ inches tall, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was killed in the Battle of White Oak Swamp on June 30, 1862.
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(606)Durgin, Joseph18191862-06-30
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 3

  • (1441) [writer] ~ Joseph Durgin to William H. H. Knowlton, 31 January 1862
  • (1442) [writer] ~ Joseph Durgin to Friend, 8 June 1862
  • (1443) [writer] ~ Joseph Durgin to William H. H. Knowlton, 1862

Places - Records: 2

  • (413) [birth] ~ Northwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
  • (411) [death] ~ White Oak Swamp, Henrico County, Virginia

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (160) [enlisted] [A] ~ 5th New Hampshire Infantry
SOURCES

1850 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; New Hampshire Civil War Service and Pension Records, 1861-1866, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.