Arnold J Timmermans
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Arnold J. TIMMERMANS
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Maine
15th Maine  Infantry
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Enlisted

enlisted November 9, 186, 1discharged March 27, 1862; reenlisted July 17, 1863 Unassigned Veteran Reserve Corps(?)

Discharged

discharged July 16, 1865

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Born

Born November 18, 1817 in Belgium

Married

Elvira Stimen

Death

1886

Biography :

Arnold J Timmermans Arrival in New York on board Sea Eagle June 14, 1854. A painter by trade, he settled first in Calais, Washington County, Maine and married Elvira Stimen, born New Brunswick and widow of  Robert Bonus(or Bowle). He enlisted at the organization of his Unit at Augusta on December 30, 1861 but, during the Winter fell on the ice during Battalion drill. A large hernia developed on the right side rendering him unfit for military service and filled a pension claim as soon as June 1863. 

 In the rosters of the 15th Maine, Timmerman is acknowledged as Joseph A or Arnold J.  In the Unit story, he his listed as Joseph A. Timmermans, having "died in the service" in 1862. For that winter of 1862 the historian of the Regiment write "as a more painful incident of the winter's stay at Augusta must be mentioned the fact that the exposure to which the soldiers were subjected in camp during the winter, quite seriously affected the general health of the command, and rendered "the sick-list" both in camp and in quarters, quite formidable. Many contracted violent colds, resulting in lung difficulties and other ailments, from which they never recovered. Not a few died at Augusta during the winter or early spring months, while many others, completely broken down in health, and unable to accompany the regiment, were left behind, in hospital or at their homes, and were finally discharged from the service for disability, or, unaccounted for, were dropped from the rolls in pursuance of general order". 

 After the War, Arnold Timmermans moved to Portland, Maine. If in his naturalization papers filled in September 9, 1868, he state being born in Belgium, in the 1870 and 1880 censuses, he state being born in France. In the 1880 census he list his father as being born France and his mother being born Belgium.  His wife has already 5 children from her former marriage but a girl Ella M. was born from them about 1860. The death of Arnold Timmermans occurred in 1886, his wife surviving him and died at Portland on January 1, 1904.

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The Story of the Maine Fifteenth by Henry A. Shorey