Dana M. Dowst
Dana M. Dowst was born around May 1841 in Maine to Henry and Mary Dowst. His father was a farmer who owned $1,500 of real estate and $956 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Vienna, Maine, and by 1860, he was working as a farmer.
 
He enlisted in the Union army on October 13, 1862, and he mustered in as a corporal in Company E of the 24th Maine Infantry. He died of disease at Bonnet Carré, Louisiana, on March 28, 1863.
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(4056)Dowst, Dana M.1841-051863-03-28
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Corporal
  • Rank out: Corporal
  • Rank highest: Corporal
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 1

  • (11421) [writer] ~ Dana M. Dowst Diary

People - Records: 6

  • (4056) Dowst, Dana M. is the [sibling of] (4060) Dowst, Henry Ferdinand
  • (4056) Dowst, Dana M. is the [sibling of] (4062) Dowst, Selden M.
  • (4056) Dowst, Dana M. is the [sibling of] (4064) Dowst, John Alanson
  • (4056) Dowst, Dana M. is the [child of] (4075) Dowst, Henry
  • (4090) Smart, Josiah T. is the [aunt/uncle of] (4056) Dowst, Dana M.
  • (5590) Dowst, Laforest is the [sibling of] (4056) Dowst, Dana M.

Places - Records: 2

  • (387) [birth] ~ Maine
  • (2608) [death] ~ Bonnet Carré, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (988) [enlisted] [E] ~ 24th Maine Infantry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.