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William Cushing Paine (Massachusetts, captain (U.S.A.))

b. 1834-08-26 d. 1889-09-14

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.

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Bibliography

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/United States/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)

Citation

Paine, William Cushing. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211785 (November 12, 2026).

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