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Pettit, James M.
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James M. Pettit (1833-?) was 28 years old when he enlisted in the 64th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on September 2, 1861. His father, Dr. Eber M. Pettit (1802-1885), served as a deacon in the Fredonia Baptist Church in upstate New York, Dr. Eber Pettit and his wife Euretta ran an Underground Railroad station in Versailles, New York, and were abolitionists. Eber wrote about these experiences in his memoir, Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad (1879), which he dedicated to F...
