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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Wareham Paulina Orville Campbell

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Britain, he enlisted as the First (Orderly) Sergeant of Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 16 July 1862, as Orville Campbell.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 His full name and birth information from the Worcester County, MA, Vital Records via the FamilySearch database. Thanks to John Banks for the pointer to his burial place. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/09/1843; Worcester, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, 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. 660 - 663  [AotW citation 5590]

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, pg. 635  [AotW citation 27264]