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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Washington De Forest Wolcott

(1842 - 1884)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old store clerk in Farmington, CT. He enlisted as a Sergeant in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 7 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 as Washington Wolcott. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/03/1842; Avon, CT

Death

11/06/1884; Avon, CT; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Avon, 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. 631 [AotW citation 27208]

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