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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert Boyle

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old day laborer living with his parents and 7 younger siblings in Enfield, Hartford County, CT. He enlisted on 21 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. Major Ward reported his wound as "slight," but it was mortal.

The rest of the War

He died of his wound on 24 October 1862, probably in a field hospital near the battlefield.

References & notes

Basic information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843 in IRELAND

Death

10/24/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old St. Patrick Cemetery, Enfield, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12521]

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. 334 [AotW citation 30586]

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