Samuel Lee 7 BIGELOW

16815.35    Samuel Lee 7 BIGELOW, son of  John 6 ( Elias 5 , Joseph 4, Joseph 3, Joshua 2,John 1) and Abigail (RICHARDSON) BIGELOW, was born at Templeton, Worcester co., MA on 2 June 1826.  He studied medicine, completing his studies in Paris.  On 1 May 1857 he married Lucy Barton, d/o Judge Ira M. and Mary (Bullard) Barton.  She was born in Worcester, MA on 24 Jul 1834.  They resided in Paris several years prior to the Civil War, but then returned.  He entered the service and was Brigade Surgeon under General W. B. Franklin.  He died at Hagerstown, MD on 1 Nov 1862 of disease and was buried at Worcester.  Lucy is also buried at Worcester.

Children of Samuel and Lucy (Barton) Bigelow:

16815.351     Samuel Lee jr., b 28 July 1858; d 09 Sept 1941 Canyonville, Douglas, OR; m Alice Putnam (also given as Pearce); no children.

16815.352     Abigail, b 02 Aug 1850; d 07 Aug 1860.

Sources:
Bigelow Family Genealogy Volume. II page.260;
Howe, Bigelow Family of America;
From:
THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, VA.    [CHAP. XXIII.
  SEVEN-DAYS’ BATTLES.
The medical officers generally were untiring in their efforts to relieve the wounded. Brigade Surgeon Bigelow, Drs. Spencer, Middleton, and Okie, U. S. Army, had charge of the field hospital. Drs. Steinberg, Forwood, Ramsey, and Woodhull, U. S. Army; Assistant Surgeon Doolittle, New York Volunteers, and Acting Assistant Surgeon General were prompt and faithful in their onerous duties. Dr. Doolittle is spoken of by Colonel Warren as being particularly distinguished by his services on the field after having his horse shot under him and being severely bruised. Dr. Steinberg added largely to the reputation already acquired on the disastrous field of Bull Run.
     My thanks are especially due to Captain Weed, Fifth, and Captain Edwards, Third, U. S. Artillery, belonging to my division, and to Captain Tidball, Second, and Lieutenant Kingsbury, Fifth, Regular Artillery, and their lieutenants, for the superb manner in which their guns were handled. For the names of these lieutenants the general is respectfully referred to the reports of the battery commanders. It is not too much to say that the enemy’s attack on my right flank was frustrated mainly by the services of Captains Weed and Tidball.
     In conclusion, no army ever underwent greater hardship in the same length of time than this Army of the Potomac. Seven pitched battles attest its valor. Hunger, night marches, tropical heat, storm-drenched, weary, and exhausted,’they reached their new base uncomplainingly,  cheerful, still defiant.
     Annexed will be found tabular statements of the killed, wounded, and missing. They aggregate 8 officers killed, 30 wounded, 6 missing; 178 enlisted men killed, 656 wounded, 288 missing. Grand total, 1,122 killed, wounded, and missing.*
                 I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
                                      GEG. SYKES,
                       Brigadier- General, Commanding Division.
                   Capt. FRED. T. LOCKE ,A.A. U., Fifth Army Corps;

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