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A NARRATIVE OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH HIS MORTAL WOUNDING AT ANTIETAM, Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862.
BY JOHN MEAD GOULD, LATE ACTING ADJUTANT 10TH MAINE VOLUNTEERS, AND MAJOR 29TH MAINE VETERAN VOLS.
PORTLAND: STEPHEN BERRY, PRINTER. 1895.
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was born in New Haven, Conn., December 22, 1803. His early education was obtained in the common schools of his state. At the age of fourteen he entered the military academy at West Point, being the youngest of a class of forty. During the five years of his course, he was a careful and earnest student, especially distinguishing himself in the sciences, and graduating in 1822, second in his class.
He was immediately promoted to the Corps of Engineers, in which department he served throughout the Mexican war. In 1832 he was made 1st Lieutenant; three years later Captain.
His gallantry and efficiency during the Mexican war were rewarded by successive brevets of Major, Lt.-Colonel and Colonel of Engineers.
In 1853 Mansfield was appointed Inspector General of the army, and in the prosecution of his duties visited all parts of the country.
At the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion he was in the Northwest, but in April, 1861, was summoned to Washington to take command of the forces there. On May 17, 1861, Mansfield was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the regular army.
He rendered valuable service at Fortress Monroe, Newport News, Suffolk, and finally at Antietam, where he was mortally wounded, September 17, 1862.
NARRATIVE.
It was bad enough and sad enough that Gen. Mansfield should be mortally wounded once, but to be wounded six, seven or eight times in as many localities is too much of a story to let stand unchallenged.
These pages will tell what the members of the 10th Maine Regiment know of the event, but first we will state what others have claimed.
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