ALBERT McFEE -- 34th INFANTRY and 12th CAVALRYCANADIAN FIGHTS FOR THE UNION - Albert McFee was working as a harnessmaker for his father in Clarenceville, Quebec, when he crossed theborder and travelled fifteen miles to the west to enlist in Champlain.He was the son of John McFee and Sarah Lord.Albert was mustered into Company D of the 34th Infantry under thecommand of Captain Davis Rich. The regiment organized in Albany and leftfor Washington by railroad on July 3rd. They served along the PotomacRiver, and after winter quarters were ordered to the Virginia Peninsula.After the Seven Days' Battles in July, they prepared to go to on theMaryland Campaign. They had 154 casualties at Antietam in September and33 more at Fredericksburg in December. They were held in reserve duringthe Chancellorsville Campaign and mustered out in Albany in June 1863.Even though he had been court martialed in the 34th Infantry and hadfour months' pay stopped, he was allowed to join the 12th Cavalry as asergeant in August 1863 and acted as a recruiter in Buffalo for severalmonths. The regiment went to North Carolina to patrol around the coastalwaters and gather intelligence on blockade runners. For a time, Albertwas on detached duty at Fort Anderson in the Cape Fear River regionafter the fall of Fort Fisher. The regiment went on the Campaign of theCarolinas and was mustered out at Raleigh, NC, in July 1865.Albert returned to Clarenceville, married, and started a family. Afterthe death of his son in 1904, he and his wife, Mary, moved to Worcester,MA, to live with their daughter and her husband, who was working as afletcher. Albert died in 1905 and asked that he be buried in AlburgSprings, VT, about eight miles south of Clarenceville. Mary lived until1928 and was buried in her daughter's family plot in the Hope Cemeteryin Worcester.
