James Hammond Baldwin – Captain, United States Army

James Hammond Baldwin of Massachusetts

  • Appointed from Massachusetts, First Lieutenant, 35th Massachusetts Infantry, 16 August 1862
  • Transfered to 1st Battalion, Massachusetts Artillery, 19 January 1863
  • Captain, 26 May 1863
  • Honorably mustered out of the Volunteer Service, 20 October 1865
  • Appointed Second Lieutenant, 16th United States Infantry, 30 March 1866
  • Transferred to the 25th United States Infantry, 21 September 1866
  • First Lieutenant, 31 July 1867
  • Transfereed to the 18th United States Infantry, 26 April 1869
  • Regimental Quartermaster, 20 April to 30 June 1869
  • Captain, 6 October 1887
  • Retired from active service, 30 November 1892
  • Died 11 November 1894

12 November 1894

Captain James H. Baldwin, retired, of the Eighteenth Infantry, died very suddenly at his home in Washington early yesterday. Captain Baldwin enlisted as a volunteer in the First Massachusetts Artillery and served with distinction during the war, rising to the command of his battery.  He entered the Sixteenth Infantry as a Lieutenant in 1866, and was stationed in the South during the reconstruction period. He was tranferrred to the Eighteenth Infantry as a Regimental Quartermaster. During the Sioux Campaign, Captain Baldwin saw active service in Montana.

His remains will be interred at Arlington Tuesday.


BALDWIN, JAMES H

  • CAPT USARMY RET
  • VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown
  • DATE OF DEATH: 11/11/1894
  • DATE OF INTERMENT: Unknown
  • BURIED AT: SECTION W-SID  SITE LOT 112
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

BALDWIN, JAMES HAMMOND

  • United States Army
  • VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown
  • DATE OF DEATH: 11/11/1894
  • DATE OF INTERMENT: 11/11/1894
  • BURIED AT: SECTION 1  SITE 112-0
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

BALDWIN, CAROLINE A

  • DATE OF DEATH: 12/03/1916
  • DATE OF INTERMENT: 12/03/1916
  • BURIED AT: SECTION 1  SITE 112-ES
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
  • WIFE OF JH BALDWIN, CAPT, USA

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