Acton Memorial Library Civil War Archives | Civil War Records of Henry Hapgood

Civil War Records of Henry Hapgood

Service

Co.	Regiment / Ship	From	To	Residence / Credit	Occupation	Notes
E	6th MVI (9 months)	Private; enl. Aug. 25, 1862; must. Aug. 31, 1862	must. out June 3, 1863	Acton	farmer	age 20
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Service Record (select pages from the National Archives): 1 Page (PDF*)
Service Ledger (Town of Acton): page 34-35 (PDF)

Pension

Co.	Regiment	Date Filed	Type	App. No.	Cert. No.	State	Beneficiary/Remarks
E	6th MVI	June 23, 1864	Invalid	39 303

Pension File (select pages from the National Archives): 14 pages (PDF)

Grand Army of the Republic

Death

Date	November 25, 1863
Place	Acton, Mass.
Age	21 years, 9 months
Cause	chronic diarrhea
Obituary
Funeral
Burial	Mt. Hope Cemetery, Acton, Mass.
Survived by	(single) (death record, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org)

Additional Information

Born in Fitchburg, Mass. to parents John Hapgood and Mary A. Hosmer, both of Acton (source: death record, "Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910," AmericanAncestors.org)

Henry Hapgood was the cousin of Delete Haynes Hall. His mother, Mary Ann (Hosmer) Hapgood was the sistter of Emeline (Hosmer) Hall, Delete's mother. (The Letters of Henry Hapgood's Family: vi)

Henry Hapgood, age 13, is recorded in the 1855 Massachusetts State Census for Acton, in household (no. 240) of John and Mary Ann Hapgood (Lainhart, 1855 and 1865 Massachusetts State Census for Acton: 30).

Henry Hapgood, age 18, is recorded as an inhabitant of West Acton in the 1860 federal census, in household (no. 230) with John Hapgood, age 58, a farmer, and Mary Ann Hapgood, age 54 ("1860 United States Federal Census," Ancestry.com).

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

From: Warren Hapgood. The Hapgood Family: Descendants of Shadrach, 1656-1898. Published by the compiler, 1898: 89. Digital edition: http://archive.org/details/hapgoodfamilydes00hapg.

Henry, born February 5, 1842; resided with his parents up to the time of the "little unpleasantness with the South," when he took up arms in defence of his Country's flag, by enlisting August 31, 1862, in Company E, Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers; was in engagements at Ludlow Lawrence's Plantation, November 18, 1862, Joiners Ford on the Blackwater, December 12, 1862, Deserted house, January 30, 1863, Siege of Suffolk, April 11, 1863. Served out his term of nine months, came home with his company sick, and died November 25, 1863. Though cut down so young, he left to the world the legacy of a noble, upright and honorable character.