1st Lt. Josiah Augustus Baldwin, (USA)

1st Lt Josiah Augustus Baldwin

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• San Francisco National Cemetery, Josiah A. Baldwin

1st Lt. Josiah A. 5, Josiah 4, Captain Isaac, Deacon Isaac 3, Henry 2, Deacon Henry 1 of Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

At the age of 35 he mustered and commissioned on March 19, 1863 as 2nd Lieutenant with Company L, of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant on February 5, 1864, wounded September 19, 1864 at Winchester, Virginia. Commissioned Captain October 20, 1864, which was later revoked due to a physical disability. Discharged as 1st Lieutenant with Company B on May 15, 1865 for the same disability.

The 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War - California Sabers

California Sabers is the story of the California Battalion and Hundred, a group of 500 select men who were the only organized group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War. They volunteered their enlistment bounty to pay their passage across Panama and on to Massachusetts, where they became the cadre of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry.

From mid-1863 to July 1864, the Second Massachusetts fought a bloody guerrilla war in northern Virginia against John Singleton Mosby, the confederacy's "Gray Ghost." In July 1864 the regiment became part of Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah, and that fall it played a major role in the decisive battles of Winchester, Toms Run, and Cedar Creek.

In early 1865 the regiment was in the column that marched across Virginia destroying the vital railroad and canal that carried supplies from the Shenandoah Valley to the besieged Army of Northern Virginia. In late March, the Second Massachusetts was in the forefront of the battles at Dinwiddie Courthouse and Five Forks, the two actions that finally broke the stalemate at Petersburg and forced Lee to retreat to the west. In the ensuing chase, the regiment was the part of the cavalry spearhead that finally blocked Lee's army at Appomattox Courthouse.

Captain: Zabdial B. Adams
1st Lieutenant: William C. Manning
2nd Lieutenant: Josiah Augustus Baldwin

1830: Age 2 in Boston Ward 12, Suffolk, Massachusetts
1850: Age 22 in Boston Ward 10, Suffolk, Massachusetts
1880: Age 52, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Name Josiah H. Baldwin
Alias Josiah A. Baldwin
Military Beginning Rank Second Lieutenant
Military Final Rank Captain
Military Side Union
Military Unit 2nd Regiment, Massachusetts Cavalry
Military Company L, B, D & K
Military Company Note A
Event Type Military Service
Event Date from 1861 to 1865
Event Place Massachusetts, United States
Event Place (Original) Massachusetts
Affiliate Film Number 2
Affiliate Publication Number M544
Affiliate Publication Title Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Massachusetts.
Note Original filed under Josiah A./Baldwin_

Name Josiah Augustus Baldwin
Age 58
Birth Year about 1828
Birth Place Massachusetts
Residence Year 1886
Residence Address 614 Powell Street
Residence Place San Francisco, California, USA

California, U.S., Voter Registers, 1866-1898

Name Josiah A. Baldwin
Age 50
Birth Date About 1830
Birthplace Massachusetts
Home in 1880 San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Street Powell Street
House Number 620
Dwelling Number 27
Race White
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Father's Birthplace Massachusetts
Mother's Birthplace Massachusetts
Occupation Clerk In P.O.
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Household Members (Name) Age
Josiah A. Baldwin 50

1880 United States Federal Census

Name Josiah A Baldwin
Death Date 5 July 1891
Interment Place California, USA
Cemetery Address 1 Lincoln Blvd Presidio of San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94129
Cemetery San Francisco National Cemetery
Plot Section Os Row 91 Site 8

U.S., Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019

Name Josiah Baldwin
Event Death
Death Date 5 July 1891
Newspaper Boston Transcript
Publication Date 6 Jul 1891
Publication Place Massachusetts, USA
Call Number 486680

U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930