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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Lafayette Tillotson

(1824 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 35 year old farmer on his parent's place at Granby in Hartford County, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 5 October 1861. He was appointed Corporal on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Banks1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Louisa J Saunders (1835-1891) in January 1853 and they had two children (the first died in infancy).

Birth

04/25/1824; Granville, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12529]

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. 337 [AotW citation 25799]

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