Baird, Absalom

Life Span
to
Full name
Absalom Baird
Place of Birth
Washington, PA
Burial Place
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
1
Family
William Baird (father), Nancy Mitchell Baird (mother), Cornelia Wyntue Smith (wife) 
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Other Education
Washington College (PA)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)
Date Event
- Union forces break the last Confederate efforts to defend Atlanta at the Battle of Jonesborough
Career soldier Absalom Baird wins the Medal of Honor, leading a bayonet charge at Jonesborough
Sherman's March
How to Cite This Page: "Baird, Absalom," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/42772.