★  Bartlett, William Francis

William Francis Bartlett

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Born: June 6, 1840

Birthplace: Haverhill, Massachusetts

Father: Charles Leonard Bartlett 1802 – 1883

Mother: Harriet Dorothy Plummer 1805 –

Wife: Mary Agnes Pomeroy 1841 – 1909
(Buried: Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts)​

Children:

Agnes Bartlett Francis 1866 – 1938​
(Buried: Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts)​
Carolyn F. Bartlett Kidd 1869 – 1944​
(Buried: Old Red Church Cemetery, Tivoli, New York)​
Edwin Bartlett 1871 – 1918​
(Buried: Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts)​
Robert Pomeroy Bartlett 1874 – 1903​
(Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York)​
Edith Bartlett 1876 – 1959​
(Buried: Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts)​

Education:

1858 – 1861: Attended Harvard College – left Junior year to join army​
1862: Graduated from Harvard College​

Civil War Career:
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1861 – 1862: Captain of Company I, 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regt.​
1861: Served in the Battle of Ball’s Bluff, Virginia​
1862: Served in the Virginia Peninsula Campaign​
1862: Wounded and leg amputated during Siege of Yorktown, Virginia​
1862: Resigned as Captain in 20th Massachusetts on November 12th
1862 – 1863: Colonel of 49th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment​
1862: Served in the Louisiana Expedition under Major Gen. Banks​
1863: Served in the Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana​
1863: Wounded in left wrist and right leg at Siege of Port Hudson​
1863: Resigned as Colonel of 49th Massachusetts on September​
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1863: Organizer of 57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment​
1863 – 1864: Colonel of 57th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment​
1864: Served in the Overland Campaign in Virginia​
1864: Wounded in the head during the Battle of the Wilderness​
1864 – 1866: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers​
1864: Played a small role in the planning of the Battle of the Crater​
1864: During the Battle of Crater his prosthetic leg was shot away​
1864: Captured at the Battle of the Crater by Confederate Army​
1864: Prisoner of war held for two months at Libby Prison​
1864: Exchanged in Prisoner of War exchange in September​
1865: He was not able to return to the army until after CSA Surrender​
1865 – 1866: Division Commander in the Ninth Army Corps​
1866: Brevetted Major General for his duty in the Civil War
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1866: He resigned as Brig. General on July 18th

Occupation after War:

Manager of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia​
He would eventually move to Pittsfield, Massachusetts​
1869–1876: Suffered diarrhea and neuralgia of amputated stump​

Died: December 17, 1876

Place of Death: Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Cause of Death: Consumption

Age at time of Death: 36 years old

Burial Place: Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
 
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Bartlett was commissioned a captain and given command of Company I in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. It was known as the "Harvard Regiment" because many of it's young officers were either students or graduates of Harvard.Bartlett had been a student but left before graduating He returned later after his wounding (and amputation) at Yorktown and graduated in the summer of 1862. The 20th's baptism of fire was Ball's Bluff on October 21, 1861 where only 2 regimental officers were fit for duty following the Union Disaster, Bartlett was one of them.
 
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There was a call for 200 volunteers at Port Hudson to be a storming party laying fascines over ditches and trenches. Fascines were bundles of brush that made a pathway for the other charging soldiers.65 of the 200 volunteers came from Bartlett's 49th Massachusetts. Bartlett's unit was also the one that advanced the most of any unit and actually reached the Confederate earthworks.
 
It was when he was back in Massachusetts that he received his promotion to brigadier while he was recuperating from that head wound he got on May 6, 1864.His promotion was made effective on June 20, 1864.
 
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