After the War he returned to Bridgewater, Vt. and took up farming.
Don married Anna Briggs who was also from Bridgewater, Vt. about 1868 and they had four children, Rosa, Lester, Herbert, and Emma.
About 1885, Anna and Don divorced and Don married a woman named Laura, and Anna married Ellsworth Johnson (who was 13 years her junior), both marriages were about 1885.
Don died Jan 28, 1895 and is buried in Rutland County, Vt. above is a photo of his headstone. Anna lived until Oct 5, 1929 (age 79). She was said to have "senility" and died of "Atherosclerosis".
Regimental History
VERMONT
FOURTH REGIMENT.
THE Fourth Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, was raised
chiefly in late August and early September, 1861,
simultaneously with the Fifth regiment. The Fourth, to the
extent of nearly nine of its ten companies, was raised on the
east side of the mountains, while the Fifth, in fully as great
a proportion, was being recruited on the westside.
Company A of the Fourth was fully raised in, and very near
to Bennington county. Windsor county furnished a larger number
than any other for the Fourth, being company C, most of E, a
considerable part of K, and a fraction of B--the larger part of
B being from Orange county; D was largely from Orleans county,
with a fraction from the northwesterly part of Windham county;
F was from Windham county, largely along the Connecticut River
in Brattleboro, Rockingham and between; G and H were chiefly
from Washington and Caledonia counties; I was largely from
Windham county, though partly from the north-easterly part of
the State,while K--except as above stated, and a small fraction
from Windham-was from Washington county and the north-westerly
part of Orange county.
Its original aggregate, as a regiment, was 1,048, of whom
it is believed less than forty deserted, some of whom returned.
The most numerous desertions were from companies C and K. The
smallest losses, "killed and died of wounds," (battle losses)
were in B, E, F, I and K, and of these, ten in B was the least.
Four companies--A, C, D and G--each lost over twice that
number. Twelve officers and one hundred fifty enlisted men
died in battle; one officer and two hundred seventy-nine
enlisted men died of disease and as prisoners, sixty of whom
died in Confederate prisons.
In the battle of the Wilderness, Va., in May, 1864, seven
officers were killed and eleven wounded, one of whom died of
his wounds, and out of less than five hundred fifty enlisted
men in that battle, forty-one were killed outright. Two
hundred twenty-three were wounded, forty-three mortally, and
four were missing; so that, in this battle, the actual death
loss was eighty-four, the largest suffered by any Vermont
regiment in one battle, and a loss seldom equalled by any
infantry regiment in a single engagement during the war. Its
total losses by death were in excess of those of any other
infantry regiment from the State. The first Colonel, Edwin H.
Stoughton, was but 23 years of age. He was the youngest
officer to take a regiment from Vermont, and is believed to
have been the youngest from New England. His brother, Charles
B., (Second Col.) was made Colonel at 21.
The regiment was mustered in at Brattleboro, September 20,
1861, started for Washington next day, and in five days joined
the other Vermont troops then in Virginia, at Camp Advance, and
was soon followed by the Fifth and Sixth, which, with the
Second and Third who had "gone before," made up the "Old
Vermont Brigade," which remained unbroken, save by casualties,
and was present at the surrender of Lee. Like other Vermont
organizations the Fourth was fortunate both in its officers and
its men. It was also extremely fortunate to form part of a
brigade, organized and commanded by that gallant and unexcelled
soldier, Gen. W. T. H. Brooks; to form a part of a division,
led by the brave and soldierly Wm. F. Smith--"Baldy"--and of a
corps--Old Sixth--which, under the command of Franklin, and
later, of the incomparable Sedgwick, became the pride and idol
of the volunteer service. "Over all this waved the Greek
Cross" never humbled and never dishonored.
To have been esteemed worthy, for nearly four years of
war, to share the companionship in arms of our fellow regiments
from Vermont, and to have borne in their opinion a deserving
part of the great work of the Old Brigade, ought to be, and is,
accepted as a sure passport that the Fourth regiment was all it
need to have been, or claims to be. Her history is everywhere
a part of the history of a brigade famed throughout our Nation,
and whose losses in battle, killed and mortally wounded, exceed
those of any other brigade in the Union armies, east or
west.
ENGAGEMENTS.
Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862.
Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862.
Golding's Farm, Va., June 26, 1862.
Savage's Station, Va., June 29, 1862.
White Oak Swamp, Va., June 30, 1862.
Crampton's Gap, Md., Sept. 14, 1862.
Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862.
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.
Marye's Heights, Va., May 3, 1863.
Salem Heights, Va., May 4, 1863.
Fredericksburg, Va., June 5, 1863.
Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
Funkstown, Md., July 10, 1863.
Rappahannock Station, Va., Nov. 7, 1863.
Wilderness, Va., May 5 to 10, 1864.
Spottsylvania, Va., May 10 to 18, 1864.
Cold Harbor, Va., June 1 to 12, 1864.
Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.
Weldon Railroad, Va., June 23, 1864.
Charlestown, W. Va., August 21, 1864.
Opequan, Va., Sept. 13, 1864.
Winchester, Va., Sept. 19 1864.
Fisher's Hill, Va., Sept. 21 and 22, 1864.
Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864.
Petersburg, Va., March 25 and 27, 1865.
Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865.
Battles Fought
Fought on 12 Apr 1862.
Fought on 16 Apr 1862 at Lee's Mills, VA.
Fought on 8 Jun 1862.
Fought on 27 Jun 1862.
Fought on 29 Jun 1862 at Savage's Station, VA.
Fought on 30 Jun 1862 at White Oak Swamp, VA.
Fought on 1 Jul 1862.
Fought on 2 Jul 1862.
Fought on 7 Jul 1862.
Fought on 8 Jul 1862.
Fought on 10 Jul 1862.
Fought on 23 Aug 1862.
Fought on 3 Sep 1862.
Fought on 4 Sep 1862.
Fought on 14 Sep 1862 at Crampton's Gap, MD.
Fought on 14 Sep 1862.
Fought on 17 Sep 1862 at Antietam, MD.
Fought on 13 Dec 1862 at Fredericksburg, VA.
Fought on 3 May 1863 at Marye's Heights, VA.
Fought on 4 May 1863 at Salem Heights, VA.
Fought on 5 May 1863.
Fought on 28 Jun 1863.
Fought on 2 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
Fought on 10 Jul 1863 at Funkstown, MD.
Fought on 24 Jul 1863.
Fought on 3 Sep 1863.
Fought on 6 Oct 1863.
Fought on 11 Oct 1863.
Fought on 14 Oct 1863.
Fought on 15 Oct 1863.
Fought on 18 Oct 1863.
Fought on 2 Nov 1863.
Fought on 3 Nov 1863.
Fought on 1 Dec 1863.
Fought on 5 May 1864 at Wilderness, VA.
Fought on 6 May 1864 at Wilderness, VA.
Fought on 9 May 1864 at Wilderness, VA.
Fought on 10 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
Fought on 11 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
Fought on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA.
Fought on 30 May 1864.
Fought on 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 5 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 6 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 8 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 9 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 12 Jun 1864.
Fought on 14 Jun 1864.
Fought on 20 Jun 1864 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 21 Jun 1864.
Fought on 22 Jun 1864 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 23 Jun 1864 at Weldon Railroad, VA.
Fought on 9 Jul 1864 at Monocacy, MD.
Fought on 19 Jul 1864.
Fought on 21 Aug 1864 at Charles Town, WV.
Fought on 24 Aug 1864.
Fought on 13 Sep 1864 at Opequan, VA.
Fought on 19 Sep 1864 at Winchester, VA.
Fought on 29 Sep 1864.
Fought on 19 Oct 1864 at Cedar Creek, VA.
Fought on 25 Mar 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 27 Mar 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
BY LIEUTENANT-COLONEL STEPHEN M. PINGREE.
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