- Henry A. Fletcher
Henry Addison Fletcher (
December 11 ,1839 -April 19 ,1897 ) was anAmerican Civil War veteran, a farmer and a U.S.politician of the Republican Party.Roots
Fletcher, born in
Cavendish, Vermont , was the son and grandson of prominent Vermont politicians. His father,Ryland Fletcher , was both Lieutenant Governor (1854-1856) and Governor (1856-1858) of Vermont. His grandfather, Aseph Fletcher, was a member of the convention which applied to Congress for the admission of Vermont into the Union, and served for several sessions in the Vermont Legislature, was a county judge and presidential elector.Civil War
Henry Fletch enlisted
August 29 ,1862 , and mustered in as 2nd Sergeant, Company C,16th Vermont Infantry , he was promoted to 1st Sergeant onOctober 23 , 1862 Sergeant-Major of the regiment onMarch 9 , 1863, and commissioned 2nd lieutenant of Company C onApril 23 , 1863, to date fromApril 2 . He mustered out with the regiment onAugust 10 ,1863 .Postwar life
Fletcher represented his hometown in the
Vermont General Assembly in 1867, 1868, 1878, 1880 and 1882, and represented Windsor County in the state senate in 1886. He served on committees on banking, railroads, revision of laws and the general committee. He was military aid, with the rank of colonel, for GovrnorRedfield Proctor . In 1890 he was elected lieutenant governor, serving with GovernorWilliam W. Stickney .Mr. Fletcher, who never married, farmed the property had had been in the family for more than a century. He was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic .Mr. Fletched died in Cavendish, and is buried there.
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Vermont in the Civil War References
* Peck, Theodore S., compiler, "Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and lists of Vermonters Who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-66. Montpelier, VT.: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pp. 549, 553.
* Ullery, Jacob G., compiler, "Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont," Brattleboro, VT: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, part 2, p. 140.
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