Jesse T. Hamlin

Name: Jesse T. Hamlin Company: A Died March 11, 1863, at Germantown, Tennessee
Birth Date: 1826 Place: New York	Mustered In Date: December 19, 1861 Rank: Private Age: 35 Residence prior to military service: Cherry Grove, Goodhue County, Minnesota Vocation prior to military service: Farmer
Death Date: March 11, 1863 Place: Germantown, Tennessee Burial: Germantown, Tennessee

Jesse T. Hamlin Biography and Civil War Narrative

Jesse T. Hamlin was born in 1826 in New York state. He married Martha, born about 1832 in New York. About 1855 Jesse and Martha had a son, Stephen, also born in New York. By the time of the 1860 U.S. Census, the Jesse Hamlin family moved to Cherry Grove, Goodhue County, Minnesota, where 33-year-old Jesse worked as a farmer.

On December 19, 1861, 35-year-old Jesse T. Hamlin enlisted as a Private in Company A of the 5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment. As a member of Company A, he most likely fought at early engagements in which the 5th Minnesota participated in 1862, including Farmington, Mississippi (May 28); Corinth, Mississippi (October 4); and an expedition against Confederate General Forrest through west Tennessee (late December).

In early 1863, the 5th Minnesota was camped at Germantown, Tennessee. Probably early to mid Febraury, Private Hamlin contracted typhoid fever, a common disease among Civil War soldiers. He died from the disease on March 11, 1863, and was buried at Germantown. Martin Webster wrote of Jesse's death in a letter to his wife, Keziah:

Today we buried another one of Co. A: Mr. Hamlin, of Goodhue County. His disease was Typhoid fever. . . . This is the first death this winter in our Regiment. Several have died that belonged to the 5th Regt but were away in Gen. Hospital.

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