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(1841 - 1897)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 21, a house painter's son from Enfield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 13 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot or shots through both arms in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to Company F, 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 13 July 1863 and to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, VRC on 8 August 1863. He was discharged on 12 August 1865 at the Knights Hospital, New Haven, CT.
After the War
He began receiving a pension as an invalid in February 1866. An unmarried painter, he was admitted to the Northwestern Branch, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee, WI in November 1889 and discharged in April 1895 at his own request.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Allen L. Hitchcock (his name corrected to Lyman A. Hitchcock in the Errata [PDF] of 1936). Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the Register of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, via FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
02/16/1841; Enfield, CT
Death
02/23/1897; burial in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, CT
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 27127]