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Federal (USV)

Private

Lucius Wheeler

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Manchester, he enlisted on 9 October 1861 and mustered the next day as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died in a field hospital near the battlefield on 10 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Banks1 and the Record,2 which says he was killed outright. As does Major Ward in his after-action Report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

10/10/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12519]

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, p. 333 [AotW citation 30578]

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