Chauncey Dutton Crandall

Age 25, he enrolled on 23 September 1861 at Pitchen, NY and mustered as First Lieutenant, Company B, 76th New York Infantry on 4 October 1861. He was absent ill in late summer 1862, but was back to command his Company as senior officer present by September.

He first saw action on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 ...

with reference to which, Colonel Wainwright says:

Although for the first time under fire, he faced the long continued and destructive musketry of the enemy as if he had been in a dozen battles. And I well remember (for I marked it) the coolness with which he bound a handkerchief around my arm to stop the bleeding, thereby saving me from what might have been excessive loss of blood.\

In the subsequent part of this battle, Lieutenant Crandall took command of the Regiment.

At Antietam he was wounded in the hand, so as to unlit him for service, and soon after he was permitted to visit home on a furlough.

He returned from furlough immediately before Fredericksburg in December 1862. He was killed there by a cannon ball...

The line of battle had just been formed, when the bounding ball struck the brave Lieutenant, carrying away a large portion of his head.

His service from the Adjutant General,1 who says he was wounded on South Mountain on the 14th. Details and the quotes above from A.P. Smith's History of the Seventy-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers (1867), source also of his picture: a woodcut from a photograph. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

c. 1836; Pitcher, NY

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA