Born: April 1, 1842 Charlestown (Now Boston) Mass.

Enlistment: August 2, 1862 Boston Mass. (Malden Quota)

Occupation before the War: Student of Art

Occupation after the War: Artist, Illustration and Printmaker.

Works of Note: Illustrated Hardtack and Coffee by John D Billings and History of the Ninth Massachusetts Battery by Levi W. Baker. Reed also created a very well known map of Gettysburg.

Sketches appear in My Dear Wife - The Civil War letters of David Brett, Union Cannoneer edited by Frank P. Deane.

Reed's Letters and sketchbooks are at the National Archives.

Discharge: June 9th 1865

Physical Appearance: 5' 11" slim build, fair complexion, light brown hair and Blue eyes.

Marriage: December 29, 1869 to Rebecca Francis Farwell.

Children: None

Wounds: Broken Wrist, Saber wound to the right hand, near the base of the thumb. Spherical shot to the right shoulder.

Congressional Medal of Honor: Awarded August 13, 1895. The Medal of Honor Certificate contains this description, "Most distinguished Gallantry at the battle of Gettysburg Pa. July 2, 1863, where he rescued his wounded captain from between enemy lines."

Rank: 1st Bugler.

In a Mass. Volunteer Battery Unit, Reed only had the Rank of Private and The pay of 13.00 a month. This was lower than other unit Buglers in other units and in other Branches of the military. A point Reed contested but never won. To supplement his pay, he sold Lithographs made from his war time sketches.

Detached service as an assistant topographical engineer on the staff of Gen. Gouverneur Kemble Warren, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, after 19 November 1864.

Buried: Farwell family plot, plot #1995 Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.