California Civil War Rosters
Lieut Matthew Henry Ward

Submitted by Floyd Farrar, Cmdr. SUV Camp 17, Santa Ana CA 
Aug 10 2009

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Lieut Matthew Henry Ward

Birth:  Feb. 22, 1840, West Point, Orange County, New York, USA 
Death:  Jul. 3, 1867, Wilmington, Los Angeles County, California, USA 

The grave marker is incorrectly inscribed as "W.H. Ward".

Lt. Ward was a member of Battery M, 2nd US Artillery. He was commissioned 
November 7, 1866 from the state of New York. He was stationed at the Presidio 
in San Francisco from Feb. 5, 1867 until May 21, 1867 when he was transferred
to Drum Barracks Wilmington CA due to poor health. He died of consumption 
on July 3, 1867; at the Drum Barracks and was buried on July 4, 1867.

His prior military service was as Clerk of the Cadet Commissary at the U.S. Military 
Academy at West Point from 1860 to 1861. From August 1861 to September 1862 
he served as Chief Clerk in the Quartermaster Corps with General Bank's command 
in the Department of the Shenandoah. He was commissioned as 1st Lt. and 
Regimental Quartermaster of the 9th Michigan Cavalry on Dec. 5, 1862; and was 
honorably discharged on Nov. 30, 1864.

Burial: Wilmington Cemetery, Wilmington, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Section C, Lot 30, NW Corner