 
History of the Unit: The 16th Connecticut was formed in Hartford County, Connecticut, and was mustered into service August 24, 1862. Three weeks later the regiment first saw action at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland as part of Burnside's Ninth Army Corps. Having loaded muskets for the first time only the day before the battle, the regiment suffered significant casualties at Antietam.
We have 162 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:
| Co. |
Rank |
Name |
Casualty? |
Details* |
| A | Pvt | Agan, Thomas | WIA 09/16 | | | A | Pvt | Borchard, Moses | WIA 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Case, Orville J. | Died 10/22 |  | | A | Pvt | De Mars, Theodore E. | KIA 09/17 |  | | A | Pvt | Dunn, Michael | AWOL 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Foster, Gilbert B. | MWIA 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Hagar, Edward | MWIA 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Hale, Nathan | Died 10/12 |  | | A | Pvt | Hill, Albert M. | KIA 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Kearney, James | AWOL 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Parsons, Edwin L. | | | | A | Pvt | Pease, Charles W. | KIA 09/17 | | | A | Corp | Rhodes, Henry W. | AWOL 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Robinson, David | AWOL 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Talcott, Arthur D. N. | MWIA 09/17 | | | A | Pvt | Tucker, Fellows Dixon | AWOL 09/17 |  | | A | Pvt | Wildman, Cornelius | KIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Chalmers, James | AWOL 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Duff, William | KIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Foster, Philip H. | KIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Grosvenor, Joseph | KIA 09/17 |  | | B | Sgt | Grosvenor, Samuel E. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Hamilton, Hancey | KIA 09/17 |  | | B | Pvt | Hunn, Horace | Died 10/12 |  | | B | Pvt | Johnson, Charles L. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Johnson, Wilmer H. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Jones, Joseph J. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Kitchen, James A. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Loper, Thomas H. | WIA 09/17 | | | B | Pvt | Pinney, Delos R. | Died 10/12 | | | B | Pvt | Prior, Seth Franklin | KIA 09/17 |  | | B | Corp | Safford, William P. | MWIA 09/17 | | | C | Pvt | Braman, John P. | Died 09/17 | | | C | Corp | Collins, Charles T. | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Corp | Cook, William H. | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Pvt | Fuller, James B. | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Lt | Gonge, George S. | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Pvt | Lillie, Edwin B. | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Pvt | Loveland, John | MWIA 09/17 |  | | C | Capt | Rankin, Edward R. | |  | | C | Pvt | Stedman, Simeon | WIA 09/17 | | | C | Pvt | White, John | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Allen, George W. | KIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Barnett, Henry | KIA 09/17 |  | | D | Sgt | Bostwick, Randall | AWOL 09/09 | | | D | Capt | Brown, Samuel | KIA 09/17 |  | | D | Pvt | Carrier, David B. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Finemann, Gottfield | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Fries, Adolph | AWOL 09/09 | | | D | Pvt | Fries, Frederick | AWOL 09/09 | | | D | Pvt | Getman, William H. | AWOL 09/17 | | | D | Corp | Grace, Michael | KIA 09/17 | | | D | Corp | Jobes, Richard | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Lacy, Henry | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Corp | Leary, Patrick | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Lester, Charles H. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Letcher, John B. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Margerum, Claudius C. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | McDonald, Patrick | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Mitchell, William G. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Noll, Henry W. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Persse, John | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Sgt | Pratt, Collins | AWOL 11/02 | | | D | Pvt | Smith, George B. | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Snow, Nelso | KIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Tate, John | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Wardwell, Emerson | Died 10/17 |  | | D | Corp | Warner, Horace | KIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Waters, Nathaniel A. | AWOL 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Webster, William | AWOL 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Wessels, Helmuth | WIA 09/17 | | | D | Pvt | Wessels, Louis | WIA 09/17 | | | E | Capt | Babcock, Charles | WIA 09/17 | | | E | Pvt | Barnes, Ham A. | WIA 09/17 | | | E | Corp | Barnes, Jesse O. | KIA 09/17 | | | E | Pvt | Case, John E. | WIA 09/17 | | | E | Pvt | Chaplin, Charles H. | WIA 09/17 | | | E | Pvt | Cowan, William | MWIA 09/17 |  | | E | Pvt | Grey, Robert | AWOL 10/15 | | | E | Pvt | McGrath, James | KIA 09/17 |  | | E | Pvt | Morgan, Robert P. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | E | Pvt | Shepard, Miles D. | Died 11/13 |  | | E | Pvt | Stevens, Charles G. | MWIA 09/17 | | | E | Pvt | Viets, Charles W. | AWOL 09/17 | | | F | Pvt | Nichols, William W. | KIA 09/17 | | | F | Pvt | Waterman, William G. | AWOL 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Adams, Henry M. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Allen, John W. | MWIA 09/17 | | | G | Corp | Allen, Solomon H. | KIA 09/17 | | | G | Corp | Bowers, Charles C. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Brainard, Edwin | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Burr, Bela L. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Burr, Francis W. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | G | Pvt | Chamberlain, George F. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Clancy, Terrence | KIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Cleary, John | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Fleming, Elliott | KIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Gladding, Timothy | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Capt | Hayden, Nathaniel | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Hindenlang, Leopold | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Kent, John S. | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Sgt | King, Charles C. | MWIA 09/17 | | | G | Corp | Lewis, Charles H. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Moore, Edward | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Corp | Munsell, Elijah | KIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | North, William A. | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Sgt | Parmale, Edward A. | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Pvt | Penfield, Charles N. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Pfiefer, John | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Porter, Henry L. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Smith, Michael | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Pvt | Smith, Walter E. | WIA 09/17 | | | G | Pvt | Wagner, Edward | AWOL 09/17 | | | G | Sgt | Washburn, Wadsworth A. | KIA 09/17 |  | | G | Pvt | Wilson, Orvil M. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | H | Pvt | Annis, Henry B. | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Capt | Barber, Frederick M. | KIA 09/17 |  | | H | Pvt | Bingham, John F. | KIA 09/17 |  | | H | Pvt | Bowen, Charles F. | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Sgt | Brown, Edwin H. | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Cullumns, William N. | KIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Hollister, Bridgeman J. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | H | Pvt | Johnson, Rufus | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Keeney, Maranthon H. | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Keith, Bela M. | MIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Massey, William | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Porter, William Wallace | MWIA 09/17 |  | | H | Corp | Rich, George F. | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Corp | Stoughton, Sanford | Died 10/28 | | | H | Pvt | Wetmore, Samuel | WIA 09/17 | | | H | Pvt | Wilsey, Julius C. | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Brooks, James W. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | I | Sgt | Campbell, Orville | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Sgt | Chamberlain, Rufus | MWIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Cooney, John | AWOL 09/17 | | | I | Capt | Drake, John Lewis | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Corp | Evans, Henry D. | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Lt | Fisk, John M. | | | | I | Pvt | Gengan, James | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Greegin, James | KIA 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Hawley, Robert A. | MWIA 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Hines, James | MWIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Hines, Stephen | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Lt | Horton, William | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Lay, Horace | MWIA 09/17 |  | | I | Sgt | Macarty, Thomas | KIA 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Pierce, Edward W. | WIA 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Truesdell, Augustus | KIA 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Twiss, Jason E. | KIA 09/17 |  | | I | Pvt | Webster, Samuel P. | AWOL 09/17 | | | I | Pvt | Woelffer, A. Julius | AWOL 09/06 | | | K | Pvt | Aldrich, Henry | KIA 09/17 |  | | K | Pvt | Barnes, Gideon S. | MWIA 09/17 |  | | K | Pvt | Bunnell, Wales T. | AWOL 09/17 | | | K | Pvt | Funck, Augustus H. | WIA 09/17 | | | K | Corp | Gray, John W. | WIA 09/17 | | | K | Pvt | Hooker, N. Charles | AWOL 09/17 | | | K | Capt | Manross, Newton Spaulding | MWIA 09/17 |  | | K | Pvt | Stone, Levi | AWOL 10/20 | | | F&S | Col | Beach, Francis | |  | | F&S | LCol | Cheney, Frank Woodbridge | WIA 09/17 |  | | F&S | Maj | Washburn, George A. | WIA 09/17 | |
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