G.S. Barnes

Federal (USV)

Private

Gideon S. Barnes

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A laborer from Burlington, he enlisted on 26 July 1862 and mustered into Company K in August.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action - through the leg above the knee - on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Died of wounds in November 1862 at his father's home in Burlington, CT.

References & notes

Basic information from Ingersoll1, with details from John Banks. The photograph here from a CDV owned by Lester Larrabee, kindly provided by John.

Birth

c. 1830

Death

11/17/1862 Burlington, CT; burial in Forestville Cemetery, Bristol, 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 5603]

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