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Federal (USV)

Private

Hancey Hamilton

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A of the 12th Connecticut Infantry on 1 November 1861 but was discharged for disability just 3 months later on 14 February 1862. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service information from the Record.2, also as Hansey Hamilton. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Hinsdale Scranton in May 1851 in Hartford, CT.

Birth

c. 1828 in IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3594]

2 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. 476, 623 [AotW citation 26985]

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