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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old factory equipment operator, an employee of the Hartford Carpet Company, and lived with his widowed mother Margaret and 2 brothers in Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September in Hartford.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in his right side and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
[He] was lying mortally wounded, when a rebel came along, picked up a Sharpe's rifle, hid it behind the fence, and passed on after other plunder. Dixon dragged himself to it, and, having rendered it useless, laid down to die.
The rest of the War
He was paroled, date not known, and died of his wounds on 4 October 1862, probably in a field hospital near the battlefield. He was 21 years old.
His mother applied for a pension in March 1865 based on his service; it was granted in May 1866.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1841 in CT
Death
10/04/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Enfield, CT
1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12522]
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. 335 [AotW citation 30587]
3 Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, p. 277 [AotW citation 30607]