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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John W. Gray

(1840 - 1916)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old machinist in Bristol, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was reduced to Private on 14 September at Frederick, MD for being absent from camp, and was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 4 March 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record,2 with further details from Gordon.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/26/1840; New Haven, CT

Death

02/26/1916; Forrestville, CT; burial in Saint Joseph's Cemetery, Plainville, 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 5602]

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. 637 [AotW citation 27332]

3 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27333]

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