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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry L. Smith

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old picker tender - a cotton or woolen mill machine operator, living with his parents in Stafford, CT. He was a foundry man there when he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October but died, cause not given, at the Parole Camp, Annapolis, MD on 16 December 1862 at age 19.

References & notes

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

Birth

c. 1843; Willington, CT

Death

12/16/1862; Annapolis, MD; burial in Staffordville Cemetery, Staffordville, 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. 636 [AotW citation 27320]

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