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Federal (USV)

Private

Elijah White, Jr.

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

An orphan since age 11, in 1860 he was a 21 year old painter living with the David Norton family in Waterbury, CT. He enlisted on 18 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, First Connecticut Infantry on 22 April. He mustered out with his company on 31 July 1861. Giving his home as Barkhamsted, he enlisted again, on 3 September, and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was appointed Corporal on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action while a member of the Color Guard at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty 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. 1839 in CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Center Cemetery, Barkhamsted, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12530]

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, pp. 11, 337 [AotW citation 30610]

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