James W. Converse

James Wheaton Converse by Hallett & Brother of New York City Starting the war as a sergeant in the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry, his courageous conduct in battle at New Bern. N.C., in 1862 was noted by superior officers, who discharged him to become an officer in the Forty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry. He survived the war, and died in 1876 at age 32.