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Federal (USV)

Private

John Willey Allen

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old joiner in East Windsor, he mustered as Private, Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 25 September 1862, probably on or near the battlefield.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1. Personal details from the US Census for 1860 and family genealogists including Orrin Peer Allen in The Allen Memorial (1907) [GoogleBooks page]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Esther M Schoonmaker (later Lasbury, 1839-1916) in November 1858 and they had 2 children: Clarissa, named for his mother, and John David (his father was David), born on 14 September 1862.

Birth

06/26/1838; Ellington, CT

Death

09/25/1862; burial in Melrose Cemetery, East Windsor, 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, pg. 656 [AotW citation 5558]

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