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Federal (USV)

Private

Nathaniel C. Eldridge

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old mariner in Preston, New London County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and died there the next day.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service and death from the Record,2 as Nathaniel C. Eldredge. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his birth date calculated from his age at death (21 years, 2 months, 21 days).

Birth

06/28/1841 in CT

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in New Poquetanuck Cemetery, Preston, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12531]

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. 340 [AotW citation 30613]

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