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Federal (USV)

Private

Moses Goodman Griswold

(1832 - 1910)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Bloomfield, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 2 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farm worker or day laborer in West Hartford, CT. By 1910 he had retired and was living in West Hartford with his son John and family.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Eunice Webster (1840-1914) in September 1855 and they had 6 children.

Birth

03/11/1832 in CT

Death

12/03/1910; Hartford, CT; burial in North Cemetery, West Hartford, CT

Notes

1 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, pg. 621 [AotW citation 27042]

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