John M. Deane

Infobox Military Person
name= John M. Deane
born= birth date|1840|1|8
died= death date and age|1914|9|2|1840|1|8
placeofbirth= Assonet, Massachusetts
placeofdeath=Assonet, Massachusetts
placeofburial= Assonet Burying Ground


caption=John M. Deane, c.1902
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allegiance= United States of America Union
branch= United States Army Union Army
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rank= Major
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battles= American Civil War
awards= Medal of Honor
laterwork=Businessman

John Milton Deane (January 8, 1840 - September 2, 1914), was an American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and a major in the United States Army.

Biography

Deane was born in Assonet, Massachusetts to John and Lydia (Andros) Deane. He attended local schools in Assonet and Myricks, and later at the Foxboro English and Classical School. After completing his own schooling, Deane served as a schoolteacher in Berkley and Assonet. Deane enlisted in the Assonet Light Infantry in September, 1858.Richmond, Col. Silas P. "A History of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts: Military History". Assonet: Assonet Village Improvement Society, 1902. ]

On November 20, 1866, Deane married Mary Gray Pearce (1846-1923). She was the daughter of Abner Tompkins and Sarah Read (Briggs) Pearce.Richmond, Col. Silas P. "A History of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts: Military History". Assonet: Assonet Village Improvement Society, 1902. ] On September 2, 1914, John Deane died at the age of 74. He is buried in the Assonet Burying Ground.

In 1989, a ceremony was held in the Assonet Burying Ground during which a government marker was placed on Deane's grave. In 2005, Deane's diaries from the period 1861-1865 were published by the Freetown Historical Society as "Civil War Diaries of Maj. John M. Deane, Medal of Honor Winner, 1861-1865".

Medal of Honor citation

In a letter dated March 8, 1895, Col. W. F. Ainsworth informed Deane that he had been awarded the Medal of Honor "for most distinguished gallantry in action at Fort Steadman, Virginia, March 25, 1865, in serving with other volunteers, a previously silenced and abandoned gun, mounted en barbette, at Fort Haskell, being exposed to a galling fire from the enemy's sharpshooters."

ee also

*List of Medal of Honor recipients
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References

External links

*findagrave|8154771 Retrieved on 2008-02-21

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