Francis E. Warren was enrolled on September 11, 1862, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and mustered in on September 19 for the term of nine months as a private in Captain Plunkett's company of the 49th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Young Warren was promoted to corporal sometime in April or May 1863.
The 49th was drilled at Pittsfield and Worcester then went to New York on provost duty before going to New Orleans and being made a part of the 19th Army Corps. The regiment took part in the Battle of Plains Store on May 21, 1863, which ended up sealing the Confederates into their defenses at Port Hudson, Louisiana.
They then were involved in the whole siege of Port Hudson from investment to surrender, including the attacks on it.
Their terms of service over, Warren and his company were mustered out and honorably discharged at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 1, 1863, after a year of intensive military service.
Another source says that after Port Hudson that Warren served out the remainder of the war as a noncommissioned officer an received his discharge from the Union Army in 1865.Several sources say that after the war, he participated as a captain in the Massachusetts militia.
--Old Secesh
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