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Federal (USV)

Private

John Tate

(c. 1840 - 1871)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 18 March 1863. He enlisted again, in Company M, First Connecticut Cavalry on 8 April 1864. He was captured at Stony Creek, VA on 29 June 1864 and released on 4 March 1865. He was furloughed on 19 March 1865 but "failed to return" with no further military record.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862, which says his arm was amputated. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in PA

Death

12/14/1871; burial in Thompsonville Cemetery, Enfield, CT

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 651 - 663 [AotW citation 5533]

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. 95, 627 [AotW citation 27104]

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