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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

In 1860 he was a 38 year old carpet manufacturer in New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

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

[He] was a thoughtful, serious, almost melancholy Christian man. Service was to him a stern duty performed with rigid exactness and courage. He died as he had lived.

References & notes

Service and death information from Banks1 and the Record.2 The quote above from the History.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (as Sypron H Rust). His memorial is on Findagrave; he may be in Antietam National Cemetery as an unknown, but he is not among those listed there by name.

He married Susan Tucker (1800-1891) in 1848.

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]

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 30600]

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