William Cushing Paine

Birth Date

1834-08-26

Death Date

1889-09-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Massachusetts, soldier (U.S.A.). Massachusetts native. Married to Hannah Perry Paine. Graduated of Harvard University in 1854. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1858. Assistant instructor of practical engineering at West Point in 1858. Served as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain in the Army Corps of Engineers at Clark's Point in Bristol County, Massachusetts, from 1860 to to November 6, 1863.

Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, Vol. 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. George Washington Cullum, "William C. Paine," Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.T., http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/UnitedStates/Army/USMA/CullumsRegister/1798*.html (accessed January 28, 2017). Find A Grave, "William Cushing Paine (1834-1889)," https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150689885 (accessed January 28, 2017)

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