G.S. Barnes

Federal (USV)

Private

Gideon S. Barnes

(1827 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old laborer on his father Sherman's farm in Avon, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862, credited to Bristol, CT.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot through the his left leg above the knee at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 17 November 1862 at his father's home in Avon, CT.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph owned by Lester Larrabee, kindly provided by John Banks.

He married Lydia Ann Hall Atkin (1839-1918) about 1856.

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]

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 27328]

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