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Frederic Dummer Sewall (Maine soldier, commanding officer of Camp Parole, MD)

b. 1826-01-23 d. 1907-12-16

Sagadahoc County, Maine, attorney and soldier. Sagadahoc County, Maine, native. Son of Joseph S. Sewall and Emma Smith Sewall. Married to Eveline Hill Gove Sewall in Sagadahoc County in 1849. Father of Evelina Sewall and Joseph E. Sewall. Graduated from Bowdoin College in Cumberland County, Maine, in 1846. Attorney in Lincoln County, Maine, in 1850. Attorney in Sagadahoc County in 1860. Served as Assistant Adjutant General from 1861 to 1862. Served in the 19th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from 1862 to 1863. Served in the Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) as a major and colonel from 1863 to 1865. Commanding officer of Camp Parole in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, from February 1865 to May 1865. Brevetted brigadier general in July 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Maine, Lincoln County, Bath, p. 130A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maine, Sagadahoc County, Bath, p. 277.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Maine, Sagadahoc County, Bath, 0. 318B.

Nehemiah Cleaveland, History of Bowdoin College with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates: From 1806 to 1879, Inclusive, ed. Alpheus Spring Packard (Boston: James Ripley Osgood & Company, 1882), 625.

General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, 1794-1902 (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 1902), 76.

Francis B. Hetiman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. I (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 874.

U.S., Returns from Military Posts, 1806-1916, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, NARA Series M617, RG 94, Roll 32.

"Col Frederic Dummer Sewall (1826-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial 62244340, accessed May 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62244340.

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Sewall, Frederic Dummer. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199657 (November 12, 2026).

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