Private Rufus Bailey Ladd

1830 - 1864  (34 years)

• Name	Rufus Bailey Ladd  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Title	Private
  Birth	9 May 1830	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1860	Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA   [8]
  	Caroline and Rufus Ladd
  Military Service	Aug 1862	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [10, 11]
  	Union Navy - War of the Rebellion
  Military Service	4 Mar 1864	Maine, USA   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12]
  	Union Army - War of the Rebellion; Company H, 2nd Maine Cavalry; Died in Service
  Death	8 Oct 1864	New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA   [1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 12]
  	Cause: Killed in Action - Civil War
  	Died during the Occupation of New Orleans
  Burial	Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, St Bernard, Louisiana, USA   [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 12]
  		Burial-LADD Rufus Grave of Rufus Baily Ladd - Chalmette National Cemetery + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35031943/
  		Chalmette National Cemetery (Also known as Monument Cemetery) Leesville, St Bernard, Louisiana Find a Grave: #67200 Plot: National Cemetery
  Person ID	I14699	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Daniel Ladd,   b. 1803, Newbury, Orange, Vermont, USA d. 29 Sep 1834, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 31 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth 'Eliza' Gott,   b. 26 Oct 1804, Newbury, Orange, Vermont, USA d. 20 Dec 1830 (Age 26 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	28 Dec 1824  [13]
  Family ID	F7251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Caroline Stanley,   b. 1831, Maine, USA d. 27 Feb 1918, Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	1852  [14]
  Family ID	F5357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 9 May 1830 - Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA Census - Caroline and Rufus Ladd - 1860 - Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, USA Military Service - Union Navy - War of the Rebellion - Aug 1862 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Military Service - Union Army - War of the Rebellion; Company H, 2nd Maine Cavalry; Died in Service - 4 Mar 1864 - Maine, USA Death - Cause: Killed in Action - Civil War - 8 Oct 1864 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA Burial - - Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, St Bernard, Louisiana, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Military Grave Marker - Grand Army of the Republic Killed in Action: American Service in the Civil War (Union)

  
  

  Burials

  Burial-LADD Rufus Grave of Rufus Baily Ladd - Chalmette National Cemetery + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35031943/

  
  

  Military Records		Military-LADD Rufus (Navy) Page 138 - (Boston) - Weekly Returns of Enlistments at Naval Rendezvous ("Enlistment Rendezvous") Jan. 6, 1855-Aug. 8, 1891
  		Military-LADD Rufus (Service) Page 1 - Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Maine

  
  

• Sources

  [S10457] Find a Grave (Killed in Action - Civil War), LADD Rufus Bailey - PVT Union Army - 1830-1864 (Veteran) (KILLED IN ACTION). BIRTH: 9 May 1830 Mount Desert, Hancock County, Maine DEATH: 8 Oct 1864 (aged 34) BURIAL: Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana PLOT: Section 68, Grave 5447 MEMORIAL ID: 35031943 Pvt Co. H, 2 ME Cavalry, Civil War https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35031943/rufus-bailey-ladd Burial-LADD Rufus Grave of Rufus Baily Ladd - Chalmette National Cemetery + https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35031943/ [S1589] Ancestry.com, U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2012;), National Archives and Records Administration; Burial Registers of Military Posts and National Cemeteries, compiled ca. 1862-ca. 1960; Archive Number: 44778151; Series: A1 627; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-19. U.S., Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemeteries, 1862-1960 National Archives and Records Administration; Burial Registers of Military Posts and National Cemeteries, compiled ca. 1862-ca. 1960; Archive Number: 44778151; Series: A1 627; Record Group Title: Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-19 [S1590] Ancestry.com, U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2012;). U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 [S153] National Archives and Records Administration, U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2000;), The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; NAI Number: T288; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007; Record Group. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; NAI Number: T288; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007; Record Group [S156] Historical Data Systems, comp, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2009;), Historical Data Systems, Inc.; Duxbury, MA 02331; American Civil War Research Database. [S154] Ancestry.com, U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2012;). U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 [S233] National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2006;), National Cemetery Administration; U.S. Veterans' Gravesites. [S93] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2009;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine; Page: 608. 1860 United States Federal Census Year: 1860; Census Place: Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine; Page: 608 [S870] Ancestry.com, U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2010;), The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Quarterly Abstracts of Seamen's Protection Certificates, New York City, NY 1815-1869. U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869 The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Quarterly Abstracts of Seamen's Protection Certificates, New York City, NY 1815-1869 [S1525] Ancestry.com, U.S., Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2014;). U.S., Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891 [S5371] Fold3: Rufus B Ladd, USN, Rufus Bailey Ladd, USN, Civil War. Page 138 - (Boston) - Weekly Returns of Enlistments at Naval Rendezvous ("Enlistment Rendezvous") Jan. 6, 1855-Aug. 8, 1891 1862 https://www.fold3.com/image/280254819?rec=268397023&terms=rufus,war,us,civil,union,ladd&xid=1945 Military-LADD Rufus (Navy) Page 138 - (Boston) - Weekly Returns of Enlistments at Naval Rendezvous ("Enlistment Rendezvous") Jan. 6, 1855-Aug. 8, 1891 [S1592] Fold3 - Killed in Action: Rufus B Ladd 1830-1864, PVT (Private) Rufus Bailey Ladd, Company H, 2nd Maine Cavalry . Killed in Action in the Newspapers.com: Occupation of New Orleans during the Civil War. Died in Service https://www.fold3.com/page/635711406/rufus-b-ladd?xid=1945 Military-LADD Rufus (Navy) Page 138 - (Boston) - Weekly Returns of Enlistments at Naval Rendezvous ("Enlistment Rendezvous") Jan. 6, 1855-Aug. 8, 1891 Military-LADD Rufus (Service) Page 1 - Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Maine [S579] William Otis Sawtelle, Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer, (Date: 1926;), Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants, 929.2 G6852. NOTES ON THE GOTTS OF NEW ENGLAND The name of Gott is of Old English origin, meaning a water way or water course, to be recognized in our word gutter and gut, meaning a channel of restricted limits. As early as the fourteenth century Gotts appear in the English records and later as residents in Yorkshire and in Kent. A diligent search among the parish records of Old England has failed to locate the antecedents of Charles Gott and his wife Sarah, first of the name in New England. In the publications of the British Records Society the name is frequently met with and also in the numerous English county genealogies; but no mention of any Charles Gott of whom Hubbard thus speaks: “With Mr. Endicot in the year 1628 came Mr. Gotte, Mr. Brokenbury, Mr. Davenport and others who being added to Capt. Trask’s preparations for a new colony that was coming over.” The Captain Trask mentioned by the New England historian was Captain William Trask and it is interesting to note this early mention of two family names well known in the Mount Desert region. As the history of any region is contained in family records I make no apology in presenting these papers relating to the Gotts of New England who spread from Salem, Massachusetts, to Connecticut and to New York; to various parts of Maine, especially Mount Desert where many of them were among the first permanent settlers. La Petite Plaisance of Champlain is our Gott’s Island of today; a name for which the lack of euphony is more than compensated by its significance in the pioneer history of Mount Desert. Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants [S5373] Find a Grave: STANLEY Hannah Young 1831-1918, Hannah Caroline Stanley Ladd-Young. BIRTH: 1831 DEATH: 1918 (aged 86–87) BURIAL: Stanley-Gilley Cemetery, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, Maine MEMORIAL ID: 100485718 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100485718/hannah_caroline_ladd-young