J.L. Drake
(? - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He worked in the Colt Arms factory, Hartford, CT before the War. He enrolled in August 1862 and helped raise a Company. He musteerd as Captain, Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 24 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
Origianlly buried on the battlefield, his remains were returned to Hartford on 10 October 1862.
References & notes
Birth
Date not known in NH
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
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. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5587]