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(1842 - 1927)
Home State: Connecticut
Command Billet: Soldier
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parent's small place at Woodbury in Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 23 September 1861 at Hartford, and mustered as a Private in the Waterbury Company - Company E of the 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He and his regiment crossed the Antietam at Snavely's Ford about 1 o'clock on the 17th, and fought nearly to Sharpsburg itself, before being driven back to the heights above the Lower Bridge late in the afternoon. He recorded his experiences of that day in a diary, transcribed here on AotW.
The rest of the War
He was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 24 September 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was an agent of the Warren Roofing Company in Brooklyn, NY and was in the roofing business there to at least 1880. In 1900 he was an ironworker, in 1910 a sheet metal worker, and by 1920 a building contractor, by then 77 years old and still in Brooklyn.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1920, and his death notice in the New York Times of 4 November 1927. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Frances Augusta "Fannie" Patterson (1845-1914) in 1864 and they had 3 children between 1865 and 1871.
Birth
05/22/1842; Sharon, CT
Death
11/01/1927; Brooklyn, NY; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Watertown, CT
1 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, p. 343 [AotW citation 30633]