Collins M. Chadbourn
Collins M. Chadbourn was born around 1838 in Maine to Nathan and Betsey Chadbourn. His father was a farmer who owned $7,000 of real estate in 1850. He grew up and attended school in Waterboro, Maine. His father died on April 25, 1860. Chadbourne took over as head of the household, and by June 1860, he owned $5,000 of real estate and $700 of personal property.
 
Chadbourn enlisted in the Union army on October 31, 1861, and he mustered in as a corporal in Company I of the 1st Maine Cavalry later that day. The regiment took part in the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign. He was eventually promoted to sergeant.
 
In January 1863, he expressed deep discouragement with the Union war effort. He confessed that he “dislike[d] very much the screeming of shells or the humming of bulletts. And what is worse I am discouraged!” He lamented that Union forces had “been repulsed so often & with so great a loss,” and he was “willing to compromise with [Confederates] most any way now but it seems they are determined to have their Indipendance & I am afraid they will have it.” By July 1863, however, his morale had improved dramatically. He expressed pride in “lend[ing] our influence in crushing this mighty rebellion,” and he predicted that Union victories at Vicksburg and Port Hudson would demonstrate to “Old Jeff [Davis] that his Government is rather a sham affair.”
 
He was wounded and captured in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House on May 11, 1864. As his brother Joseph noted, “a shot struck Collins[‘] pistol another struck his belt [and] hurt him some but he never left his poast, the third struck him in the Bowels [and] went clear through him & he fell of[f] his Horse.” Soon afterwards, “the Rebs made a charge on them & they had to fall back.” He was exchanged soon afterward, but he died on August 22, 1864.
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(3488)Chadbourn, Collins Moulton18381864-08-22
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Corporal
  • Rank out: Sergeant
  • Rank highest: Sergeant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 8

  • (1603) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn to Melvina Chadbourn, 2 January 1863
  • (3392) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn Diary, 1862
  • (6341) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn to Brother, 27 November 1859
  • (6342) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn to Joseph H. Chadbourn, 15 January 1863
  • (6343) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn to Brother, 23 July 1863
  • (6344) [associated with] ~ Joseph H. Chadbourn to Brother, 22 May 1864
  • (9440) [writer] ~ Collins M. Chadbourn to Paul Chadbourn, 24 September 1862
  • (9456) [associated with] ~ Joseph H. Chadbourn to Brother, 29 August 1864

People - Records: 8

  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (1999) Chadbourn, Joseph Hooper
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (2001) Chadbourn, Melvina
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (3449) Chadbourn, Joann
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling-in-law of] (3453) Chadbourn, Elizabeth J.
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (3454) Chadbourn, Paul
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (3485) Chadbourn, Darling H.
  • (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton is the [sibling of] (3489) Chadbourn, Francis T.
  • (3489) Chadbourn, Francis T. is the [sibling of] (3488) Chadbourn, Collins Moulton

Places - Records: 1

  • (1563) [birth] ~ Waterboro, York County, Maine

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (149) [enlisted] [I] ~ 1st Maine Cavalry
SOURCES

1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Collins M. Chadbourn to Melvina Chadbourn, 2 January 1863, DL0261, Nau Collection; Collins M. Chadbourn to Darling H. Chadbourn, 23 July 1863, DL1060.003, Nau Collection; Joseph M. Chadbourn to Brother, 22 May 1864, DL1060.004, Nau Collection.