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Federal (USV)

Private

Van Buren Randall

(1835 - 1887)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was also suffering from a fractured metatarsus (middle foot) bone and gangrene when he was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October 1862. He was was discharged from the service in Frederick on 10 (or 13) March 1863.

After the War

By 1880 he was a gunsmith in Rochester, NY.

References & notes

His service information from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Cordelia Jones (1842-1873) in January 1860 in Meriden, CT, and they had 3 sons. He married again, Emma Julia Brownell (1844-) in July 1875 in Rochester, NY and they had another son, William (b. 1876). He married, third, Anna Sarah Coulter (later Salisbury, 1852-1928) in March 1883 and they had a son, Edgar (1887-1956).

Birth

03/27/1835; Lorraine, NY

Death

02/23/1887; burial in South Cemetery, Cazenovia, 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. 630 [AotW citation 27160]

2 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 #4.945 [AotW citation 27161]

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