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(1846 - 1916)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 16 year old carder in a woolen mill in Stafford, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 3 October and transferred to GH#8 ("Camp B") in Frederick on 5 January 1863. He was sent to the Convalescent Camp in Alexandria, VA on 2 March 1863, and returned to duty, date not given.
He mustered out with his regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.
After the War
He was a painter in Providence, RI to at least 1910.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital detail from the Patient List,2 as Lewis Halley. Personal details from Gordon3 and family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in 1848 (as does his stone), making him 14 at enlistment. More from the US Census of 1850 (birth 1846), 1880 (birth 1845), and 1910 (birth 1847). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Adelaide Grafton Luther (1837-1900) and, secondly, Martha Louise Sprague Boutwell (1841-1916) in April 1907 in Providence.
Birth
05/15/1846; Pomfret, CT
Death
1916; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Cranston, RI
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 27309]
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 #1.328, 710 [AotW citation 27348]
3 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27310]