Son of William Field (1798-1850) and Elizabeth Arbuckle (1796-1856).
Enlisted in Co. C, 38TH IND INF on Sept. 18, 1861; reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN; promoted to Color SGT; was carrying the regiment's national colors when killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864
SGT Field was originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Field, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, John A. Montgomery, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
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Enlisted in Co. C, 38TH IND INF on Sept. 18, 1861; reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN; promoted to Color SGT; was carrying the regiment's national colors when killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864
SGT Field was originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Field, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, John A. Montgomery, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
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Son of William Field (1798-1850) and Elizabeth Arbuckle (1796-1856).
Enlisted in Co. C, 38TH IND INF on Sept. 18, 1861; reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN; promoted to Color SGT; was carrying the regiment's national colors when killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864
SGT Field was originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Field, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, John A. Montgomery, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
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Enlisted in Co. C, 38TH IND INF on Sept. 18, 1861; reenlisted as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 28, 1863 at Chattanooga, TN; promoted to Color SGT; was carrying the regiment's national colors when killed at the Battle of Jonesboro, GA on Sept. 1, 1864
SGT Field was originally buried in a fenced in soldier plot 1 ¼ miles north of Jonesboro alongside the RR track and Flat Shoal Road. In addition to Field, six other 38TH IND INF soldiers who were killed outright at Jonesboro were also first interred here: Samuel S. Shoulders, Henderson Whittacre, SGT William Tucker, Thomas J. Craig, John A. Montgomery, and CAPT Adam Osborne. All of these men were exhumed from this grave area after the war and reinterred in Marietta Nat’l. Cemetery in Cobb Co., GA.
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