Richard Myers Hedgeman

Title

Richard Myers Hedgeman

Aliases

Miles Hedgeman (birth name); Richard Myers; Richard Miles

Date

24 November 1863-24 October 1865

Description

Regiment: 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry
Company: B
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 24 November 1863 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 24 October 1865 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States; Annapolis, Maryland, United States; Richmond, Virginia, United States; Dutch Gap, Virginia, United States; Petersburg, Virginia, United States; Fair Oaks, Virginia, United States; Brownsville, Texas, United States
Comrades: William Essex; John Perry; William Homer; Isaac Gaul

Name(s) of spouse(s): Tulip Coleman
Marriage date and place: 22 May 1869 at Oakley Farm, Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
Children: Marshall Hedgeman (1869); Josephine Hedgeman (1871); Captain Hedgeman (1874); Mary Hedgeman (1876)

Veteran's birth date and place: 13 March 1840 in Bristerburg, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
Veteran's death year and place: 3 December 1930 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
Plantation: Not listed
Enslaver: Jesse Peters of Fauquier County, Virginia

Veteran's parents: Not listed
Family members: Arthur Hedgeman (nephew)

Wife's place of birth: ~1855 in Fauquier County, Virginia
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Alfred Coleman; Matilda (maiden name unknown)
Wife's family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated by:

Joseph Roby