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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Cyprian H. Rust

(c. 1822 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted as Sergeant, Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 3 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed by a gunshot through the head in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Service and death information from Banks1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists.

Birth

c. 1822; Barkhamsted, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013  [AotW citation 12528]

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  [AotW citation 25798]