H. F. T. BuckinghamVeteran

Captain Henry Furlong Test Buckingham was born in 1841 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. By 1860 he was working as a machinist’s apprentice in York. Buckingham joined the Union Army as a Private in September 1861 for three years. He received a promotion to Corporal on May 5, 1862 and by January, 1863 he had been promoted again, this time to Sergeant. At the end of his three-year enlistment, Sergeant Buckingham was mustered out of the army on February 13, 1864 and then re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer on February 14, 1864. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant on May 7, 1864, and rose to the rank of Captain, being promoted on November 14, 1864. Buckingham survived the war and was mustered out of service at end of the war on June 28, 1865. Following his wartime service, Captain Buckingham married Emily A. Gorsuch Buckingham on October 26, 1875. The couple had two sons Roy and Emory, and a daughter Mary. The Buckingham family was living in Baltimore in 1880 where the captain worked as a tobacco merchant employed by J.W.C. Seitz & Co., a Baltimore tobacco dealer. Captain Buckingham died in Baltimore at the young age of thirty-nine on October 21, 1880.