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Federal (USV)

Private

William R. P. Foale

(c. 1820 - 1910)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the foot with fracture in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD. He was in US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD from 15 December 1862 to 30 March 1863, then furloughed. He was discharged for disability on 21 September 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was a cigar maker in Springfield, MA. His veteran's pension was increased to $30 per month by an act of Congress in 1906.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann ---- and they had at least 6 children between 1856 and 1870.

Birth

c. 1820 in ENGLAND

Death

04/09/1910; in NY; burial in The Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

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. 626 [AotW citation 27124]

2 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. 211 [AotW citation 27128]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.532 [AotW citation 27129]

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