CDV of Union Lt Asa Stebbins 44th Mass. Inf, Silsbee/Case BM Later Tombstone AZ

  

CDVs of 2nd Lieutenant Asa Stebbins, 44th Massachusetts Infantry. Wounded in North Carolina and moves to Tombstone, Arizona after the war and became a miner. Whole family member met tragic end. Civil War: Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry.

He enlisted as a 2nd Lieutenant and was mustered into Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry, May 26, 1862. Lieutenant Stebbins was wounded in action at Rawle's Mills, Williamston, North Carolina, November 2, 1862. Asa was mustered out June 18, 1863.

They had two children born in Deerfield: Horace Chase Stebbins, July 2, 1873, and Alice Una Stebbins, February 3, 1875. The family moved to the Tombstone mining district in 1878 where Alice died shortly after their arrival on July 26.

After his wife's death he sent the children back to Deerfield. Asa Stebbins stayed in Tombstone where he became a member of Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and operated the True Blue mine. His son Horace came to Tombstone in the summer of 1888 to celebrate his 15th birthday with his father. The incident was duly reported in the July 7 edition of the Tombstone Epitaph.

Soon after his death in 1889 the G. Post forming in Bisbee adopted his name. His daughter Alice died February 2, 1890, just one day shy of her 15th birthday.

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