Sumner Homer Bodfish First Lieutenant, United States Army

Sumner Homer Bodfish of Massachusetts Appointed from Georgia, Private, Company D, 46th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 25 September 1862 to 30 May 1863 Private, Company A, 2nd Massachusetts Artillery, 28 July to 16 September 1863 Cadet, United States Military Academy, 16 September 1863 (52) Second Lieutenant, 6th U. S. Cavalry, 15 June 1868 Regimental Adjutant, 27 November 1869 to 31 August 1870 Honorably discharged 1 January 1871 at his own request Died 16 May 1894 During the 1880 United States Census, Sumner Homer Bodfish resided at Washington, D.C.  His occupation was listed as Civil Engineer.  Also residing there were his wife, Julia T. Bodfish, age 37, and born in Massachusetts; Harriet Cartwright, a black female age 31, servant, born in Virginia; and William H. Newhall, age 31, born in Pennsylvania, and a Telegraph Line Constructor. BODFISH, JULIA TAYLOR WIDOW OF SUMNER H DATE OF DEATH: 12/10/1930 BURIED AT: SECTION W  SITE LOT 792 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY  WIFE OF SH BODFISH, LT 6TH US CAV   BODFISH, SUMNER H 1LT, 6TH US CAV  DATE OF BIRTH: 08/16/1844 DATE OF DEATH: 05/17/1894 BURIED AT: SECTION 1  SITE 792-WS ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 16  September 2006