H.L. Beach

Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Henry Ledlie Beach

(1842 - 1924)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 8 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to Captain of Company I to date from the battle.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission on 18 May 1863.

After the War

He was a partner in the H.B. Beach & Son Iron Works in Hartford, CT, established in 1870. It grew from the boiler business of Woodruff & Beach, his father Henry Bruce Beach's company. He was still a boiler maker in Hartford in 1920.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 Service information from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Scott D Hann Collection, as reproduced in Military Images (September/October 2002).

He married Mary Ann (or Anna) Crane (1845-1891), then married again, Amelia Sheridan Birch (1850-1940) in 1893.

Birth

07/13/1842; Hartford, CT

Death

07/26/1924; Hartford, CT; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 126 [AotW citation 16327]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pp. 631, 635 [AotW citation 27204]

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