William Frederick Sternberg

He came to America as a child and was raised in West Hartford, CT. At age 17 he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 28 July 1862.

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

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864, was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, and was paroled on 30 November 1864. He was discharged on 5 July 1865.

He returned to Hartford, then taught music in Louisville, KY for a year about 1868. He was then an optician in New Haven and had his own shop. He moved to New Britain, CT in 1897 and worked for the Traut and Hine Company, a "manufacturer of brass novelties." He retired in 1913.

His service from the Record.1 His middle name and birth date from Gordon.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave, source of further details, from his obituary.

He married Josephine Goebel (1855-1943) in New Haven in October 1875, and they had a least one child, Fredrick W Sternberg (1878-1900). She was granted a veteran's widow's pension in December 1930.

10/19/1843 in GERMANY

05/18/1930; Hartford, CT; burial in Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, CT