X:104 T:French'es Favorite B:American Veteran Fifer #104 C:By A.F. French, Co.F.15th Vt. Vol. Inf. M:C L:1/4 Q:1/4=180 K:G t=8 B/c/ | d {e}ddd/e/ | dddc | Bcde | d2dB/c/ | d{e}ddd/e/ | dddc | BA A/G/F/A/ | G2-G :| |: B/c/ | dBgB/c/ | dBg{a}g | gede | d2dd | cBcd | eddc | BA A/G/F/A/ | G2-G :| % Your message prompted me to finish researching Orrin A. French, of the 15th, and your A. F. French % is not related. % % However .. I think I've found your man: Augustus F. French, Co. F, 15 Vermont Infantry, musician. % He's the only one I could see who fits your criteria. % % Assuming this is the right man, I believe he is one Augustus Fordyce French, b. 07 FEB 1828 % Cabot,Washington Co., Vermont, son of Lyndon Smith French and Annie Elizabeth Farnham. Augustus % F. French applied for a pension in 1887 when he was living in New York. This appears to be the % Augustus French who was enumerated in the 1880 census (Long Island, Queens, New York City-Greater, % New York, Astoria, NA Film Number T9-0918 Page Number 130B) with wife Hannah, and children Julia % and Agustus. He was a cabinet maker at that time.