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==Birth==
<!-- Enter Birth Information Here -->Gilbert E. Fisher was born on July 31, 1831 to [[Isah Fisher]] and [[Nancy Ward]].<ref name="Town and City Registers">Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War</ref>  His maternal grandparents were [[Gilbert Ward]] (B. abt 1781), his namesake,  and Phebe (B. 1782).

==Marriage & Children== <!--DELETE THIS LINE IF NOT NEEDED-->
<!-- Add Information on Marriage and Children -->Gilbert may have married two times.  In the 1860 he is living with his wife Hannah (B. 1841) and daughter Emma (B. abt Nov 1859)<ref name="1860Census">1860 US Census, Westerlo, Albany Co, NY</ref>, but by the 1870 his wife was recorded as Mary (Arnold<ref name="Headstone">Burials at the Hannacroix Cemetery</ref>) and he had two children Lewis Fisher (B. abt 1859, D. after 1900) and Edwin D. Fisher (B. Jan 1866, D. aftr 1900)<ref name="1870Census">1870 US Census, Lisha Kill, Watervliet, Albany Co, NY</ref>.<ref name="1880Census">1880 US Census, Watervliet, Albany Co, NY</ref><ref name="1900Census">1900 US Census, Coxsackie, Greene Co, NY</ref>

==Occupation==
Gilbert worked as a farmer and laborer.<ref name="USCensus">US Censuses</ref><ref name="Town and City Registers"/>

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==Military Service==
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|Residence at Enlistment:
|Westerlo<ref name="Town and City Registers">Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War</ref>
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|Date of Birth:
|31 July 1831<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Names of Parents:
|Isah (Fisher) and Nancy Ward<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Marital Status:
|Married<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Occupation:
|Farmer<ref name="Town and City Registers"/><ref name="Carnival">Keating, Robert, [[h:Carnival of Blood|Carnival of Blood]]: The Civil War Ordeal of the Seventh New York Heavy Artillery, Published by Butternut and Blue, Baltimore, Md 1998</ref>
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|Term of Enlistment:
|3 years<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Bounty Received:
|None<ref name="Town and City Registers"/>
|-
|Enlistment Date:
|6 Oct 1863<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Enlistment Place:
|Albany, New York 
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|Enlistment Rank:
|Private<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|State Served:
|New York
|-
|Regiment:
|'''[[h:7th Regiment|7th Regiment]]''' NY Heavy Artillery<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Company:
|Company H<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded Date:
|3 June 1864<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded Place:
|[[Cold Harbor]]<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded Date:
|25 Aug 1864<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Wounded Place:
|[[Reams Station]]<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Muster Out Date:
|1 Aug 1865<ref name="Carnival"/>
|-
|Muster Out Place:
|Baltimore, MD
|-
|}
{| style="color:black;background-color:#ccffff;" cellspacing="1" border="2"
|Additional Remarks:  Enlisted at the age of 33<ref name="Ancestry">Ancestry Military Databases</ref>  "Was in the Battles of Ponchtula and Port Hudson"<ref name="Town and City Registers"/> Wounded first in the left hand then two months later in the head.<ref name="Carnival"/>  Gilbert has not been found in the 1890 US Veterans Census.
|-
|Sources Used: Ancestry.com, American Civil War Soldiers; Town and City Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War; [[h:Carnival of Blood|Carnival of Blood]]
|}

==Military Service==
Gilbert enlisted in Albany on October 6, 1863 in Co H of the '''[[h:7th Regiment|7th Regiment]]''' NY Heavy Artillery.  The first year and a half of his service was a relatively easy assignment defending the nation's capital in Washington DC.  Then in the spring of 1864 the Regiment was called into battle and over the next few months they saw some of the most brutal battles and experienced some of the highest casualty rates in the war.  During this time, Gilbert was wounded twice.  The first time at the battle at Cold Harbor when he was wounded in the left hand.  Then nearly 3 months later, having recovered, he was wounded in the head at Reams Station.  He obviously recovered from this injury as he remained in service until August 1, 1865 when he mustered out in Baltimore.

<br>Also serving in the '''[[h:7th Regiment|7th Regiment]]''' NY Heavy Artillery, but in Company K was his relative [[Ludlow B. Ward]] (B. July 1845, D. Dec 29, 1921), who had enlisted on August 9, 1862 at the age of 17 as a musician.  

==Life==
In 1850, Gilbert was living with his maternal grandfather and namesake [[Gilbert Ward]], who was a farmer and land owner in Westerlo.<ref name="1850Census">1850 US Census, Westerlo, Albany Co, NY</ref>  Gilbert was working as a laborer, while living with his grandparents, aunts, uncle and nieces and nephews.<ref name="1850Census"/>  In the next decade, he married and had his first child Emma in November of 1859.<ref name="1860Census">1860 US Census, Westerlo, Albany Co, NY</ref>  He was working as a farmer when he enlisted in the Civil War.  After his return, he was disabled and on December 31, 1869 he filed for an invalid pension.<ref name="Pension">Civil War Pension Index, www.ancestry.com</ref>  In 1870, he was living in Lisha Kill, Watervliet, Albany Co, NY with his wife Mary and two young boys, Lewis and Edwin.  By 1880 Gilbert, Mary and his youngest son Edwin had moved back to Westerlo, where Gilbert was working as a farm laborer.<ref name="1880Census"/>  Gilbert can not be found in the 1890 US Veterans census.  

==Death==
<!-- Enter Death & Burial Information Here -->Gilbert E. Fisher died on January 4, 1900, aged 68 years and was buried at the Hannacroix Rural Cemetery, Dormansville.  His widow, Mary Arnold Fisher, died on November 5, 1914 and is buried beside him.

==Postscript==
After his death, his wife Mary can be found living in Coxsackie, Greene County, NY with their youngest son Edwin D. Fisher (B. Jan 1866, D. after 1900) and his wife and four children.<ref name="1900Census"/>   

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