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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry E. Strickland

(1828 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted as Sergeant, Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 3 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died from wounds on 17 October 1862 at the Crystal Spring field hospital near Keedysvile, MD.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1828; Warren, CT

Death

10/17/1862; Keedysville, 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 4234]

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  [AotW citation 25797]