Francis Welch Crowninshield (1843 - 1866)

Biography
Lt. Francis Welch Crowninshield was born on 12 May 1843 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA to Maj. Edward Augustus Crowninsnhield (1817 - 1859) and Caroline Marie Welch (1820 - 1897) and died on 21 May 1866 in Lazio, Rome, Italy. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Occupation
Lt. Francis Welch "Crownie "Crowninshield left Harvard University in 1861 to enlist on 25 Dec 1861 with Company H with the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry in Washington, DC. He was wounded at the Battle of Winchester on 25 May 1862 and promoted to first lieutenant on 10 Aug 1862. He was wounded in the leg in action at the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sep 1762. Francis Welch Crowninshield was promoted again to the rank of captain while he was still on Company H on 30 Mar 1863 and wounded again at the Battle of Gettysburg on 3 Jul 1863. His third and final would was on 6 Jun 1864 at Raccoon Creek in Georgia; he was honorably discharged on 14 July 1865 in Washington, DC.

Battles
 * First Battle of Winchester
 * Battle of Antietem
 * Battle of Chancellorsville
 * Battle of Gettysburg

Lineage
Dr. Johann Casper Richter von Kronenschelt (1661 - 1711)

m. Elizabeth Allen (1672 - 1711)

Capt. John Crowninshield (1696 - 1761)

m. Anstiss Williams (1700 - 1773)

Capt. George Crowninshield (1734 - 1815)

m. Mary Derby (1737 - 1813)

Hon. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772 - 1851)

m. Mary Boardman (1778 - 1840)

Maj. Edward Augustus Crowninsnhield (1817 - 1859)

m. Caroline Marie Welch (1820 - 1897) Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1918)
 * Lt. Francis Welch Crowninshield (1843 - 1866)

m. Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921)

Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868 - 1941)

m. Carl August de Gersdorff (1865 - 1944)

Frederick Josiah Bradlee, Jr. (1892 - 1970)

m. Chevalier Josephine de Gersdorff (1896 - 1975)

Chevalier Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (1921 - 2014)

m. Sally Sterling Quinn (b. 1941)

Josiah Quinn Crowninshield Bradlee (b. 1982)

Google Books
Occupation Military
 * Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, by Edward W. Emerson, published by Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, April, 1907, P. 409.
 * Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell, by Edward W. Emerson, published by Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, April, 1907, P. 409.

Internet
Birth Marriage Education Occupation Death Parents Burial
 * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95937141
 * http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=13439
 * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95937141
 * http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=13439
 * http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=13439
 * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95937141
 * http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=13439
 * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95937141
 * http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95937141