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(1836 - 1915)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was an 26 year old bookkeeper in Hartford, CT when he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital in the Old Episcopal Church in Frederick, MD on 25 October 1862 and transferred to GH #1 on 24 January 1864. He was furloughed on 30 March and transferred to the 76th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 14 October 1863. He was discharged on 7 February 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a bookkeeper in Hartford and he was a store clerk in Glastonbury in 1880. By 1910, however, he was an inmate in the Hartford Retreat, a mental hospital.
References & notes
Service information from the Record,1 with occupation at enlistment from Gordon.2 His wound and hospital detail from the Patient List,3 also as Frank Skinner. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870, 1880, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Henrietta Talcott (1841-1913) in July 1868 and they had 2 daughters.
Birth
05/04/1836; Hartford, CT
Death
08/13/1915; Hartford, CT; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
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. 621 [AotW citation 27345]
2 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 27346]
3 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 #364 [AotW citation 27347]