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Federal (USV)

Private

Lucien Fernando Case

(1845 - 1904)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an 16 year old farmer in Stafford, CT when he enlisted a Private in Company I, 16 Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #2 in the City Hotel in Frederick, MD on 2 October 1862 and transferred to GH #5 on 9 October. He was also detailed as a cook there until he was transferred to Baltimore on 31 October 1862.

He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and was a prisoner at Andersonville. He was paroled on 10 December 1864 and mustered out with his regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.

References & notes

Service information from the Record,1 with details from Gordon.2 His wound and hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as Lucian F. Case.

Birth

10/20/1845; Rockville, CT

Death

04/21/1904; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Denison, TX

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. 635 [AotW citation 27351]

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 27352]

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 #795, 643 [AotW citation 27353]

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