Civil War Records of Nathan Goss

Service

Co. Regiment / Ship From To Residence/ Credit Occupation Notes
E (Davis Guards) 6th MVI
(3 months)		 enl. April 16, 1861; must. April 22, 1861 must. out Aug. 2, 1861 Acton    
E 26th MVI enl. Sept. 2, 1861; must. Oct. 18, 1861; re-enl. Jan. 1, 1864 must. out Aug. 26, 1865 South Acton stone cutter age 39
MASSCW, 1:382, 3:90

Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): 7 Pages (PDF*)
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page  26-27, 54-55 (PDF*)

Pension

Co. Regiment Date Filed Type App. No. Cert. No. State Beneficiary/Remarks
               

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives):  x

Grand Army of the Republic

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Death

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Additional Information

According to the enlistment papers in his service record, Nathan Goss was born in Epsom, New Hampshire.

A 32 year old stonecutter named Nathan Goss, born in New Hampshire, is recorded in the 1850 census as a resident of Milton, Mass., in household with Lorinda Goss ("1850 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

The name Nathan Goss is included on the Acton Memorial Library Soldiers' Tablet, "The Men of Acton Who Fought For The Union."

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See also:

Hosmer, The Town of Acton in the Civil War,  p. 42.

 

 

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