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(c. 1843 - 1864)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old mechanic in Southington, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 20 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He died of disease there on 8 September 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 which says he died on 9 September 1864. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His death date of 8 September from a list provided by Chaplain Charles Dixon printed in the Hartford Daily Courant of 5 October 1864. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a memorial marker, with his brother Henry, in their hometown of Southington, and a stone in Avon.
His brother Henry was killed at Antietam.
Birth
c. 1843; Southington, CT
Death
09/08/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA
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. 636 [AotW citation 27306]