Selden M. Dowst
Selden M. Dowst was born around March 1843 in New Sharon, 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 February 15, 1865, and he mustered in as private in the 4th Maine Light Artillery. He fell ill soon afterward, and he died of “Phthisis” in Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 1865.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4062) | Dowst, Selden M. | 1843-03 | 1865-05-13 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 7
- (11434) [recipient] ~ Henry Dowst to Selden M. Dowst, 18 April 1865
- (11445) [writer] ~ Selden M. Dowst to Henry Dowst, 3 March 1865
- (11447) [writer] ~ Selden M. Dowst to Henry Dowst, 18 March 1865
- (11449) [associated with] ~ Frederick B. Allen to Henry Dowst, 21 April 1865
- (11453) [associated with] ~ Josiah T. Smart to Unknown, 12 May 1865
- (11454) [associated with] ~ Josiah E. Winants Certification, 14 May 1865
- (11455) [associated with] ~ Henry F. Dowst to Unknown, 16 May 1865
People - Records: 6
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (993) [enlisted] ~ 4th Maine Light Artillery
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.
