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Gilman Lost Arm at Gettysburg Hero of Muscatine
John A. Gilman a national G A R commander born December 22 1844 in South Boston saved a life on the battlefield as an 18 year old. His early enlistment attempts faced family opposition but he forged papers with a friend to join the Twelfth Massachusetts at Camp Cameron and later proved his resolve by risking fraudulent enlistment to reach the front.
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John A. Gilman
National
Boston
John Gilman
Margaret’ Crowley Gilman
Quinny and
Eliot
F Pond
Aft Sumter
Sishe
Gilman
Twelfth
Massachusetts
Sudbury Street
United States Service
Cameron
Cambridge
Rapidan River
Cedar Mountain
Col. Webster
Daniel Webster
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Jr
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Brooklyn
Taneytown
Jacob Weickert
First Corps
Vermont Brigade
York
State House
State Board of Charities
Board of Directors of Public Institutions
Institutions’ Registrar Department
Thomas N. Hart
Soldiers’ Relief Department
Grand Army of the Republic
John A. Andrew
Post
Roxbury