Andrew Barclay Spurling

Andrew Barclay Spurling was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Spurling was born March 20, 1833 in Cranberry Isles, Maine, the son of Captain Samuel L. Spurling and Abigail Hadlock. Both his father and grandfather were seafarers by trade. His grandfather, Captain Benjamin Spurling, was in the War of 1812, and spent time as a prisoner on a British manofwar. Spurlings father, Captain Samuel Spurling, was master of the schooner Cashier of Cranberry Isles and had several runins with pirates in the Caribbean. On at least one occasion he was rewarded for having defeated pirates.

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