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R. LeVaughn
(1838 - 1864)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was a 23 year old mechanic in Rocky Hill when he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in Maryland in 1862 and was appointed Corporal on 8 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Sergeant on 18 July 1863 and to First Sergeant of Company A on 7 December 1863. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA and Charleston, SC, where he died on 22 September 1864.
References & notes
Service information from the Record,1 as Roland Levaughan, with his occupation at enlistment from Gordon.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph provided by James Silliman, from his collection.
His brother William Orlando LeVaughn (b. 1839) was also in the 16th Connecticut, and also died while a prisoner of war, at Andersonville, GA on 5 September 1864.
More on the Web
For more about the LeVaughn brothers and Andersonville, with portraits of them both in civilian clothes, see a fine post by John Banks.
Birth
12/01/1838; Rocky Hill, CT
Death
09/22/1864; Charleston, SC; burial in Center Cemetery, Rocky Hill, 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, pp. 620, 624 [AotW citation 27363]
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 27364]