Ebenezer W. Peirce | |
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Born | Assonet, Massachusetts | April 10, 1822
Died | August 14, 1902 Assonet, Massachusetts | (aged 80)
Buried | Assonet Burying Ground |
Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service | United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1843 - 1864 |
Rank | Brigadier General (Massachusetts Militia) Colonel (Union Army) |
Battles / wars | American Civil War |
Other work | Farmer |
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Ebenezer Weaver Peirce (April 10, 1822 – August 14, 1902), was a brigadier general in the Massachusetts militia, serving as 90–day volunteers in the Union Army in the opening months of the American Civil War, and a colonel of the 29th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army between December 1861 and July 1864. He later became a farmer, real estate speculator, historian and genealogist.