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Federal (USV)

Private

Augustus Truesdell

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old factory worker living with his siblings and widowed mother in the town of Franklin, New London County, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862, credited from Stafford.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/1843; Thompson, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Westfield Cemetery, Danielson, 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. 661 - 663 [AotW citation 5599]

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. 636 [AotW citation 27285]

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