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Federal (USV)

Private

Frederick J. Ellsworth

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A factory worker's son from Lebanon, he enlisted on 27 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded, shot through the head, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wounds on 21 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 1850 & 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His bother Augustin (b. 1842) was killed on 28 June 1862 while an Ordinary Seaman aboard screw gunboat USS Sciota.

Birth

10/06/1839; East Windsor, CT

Death

09/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Linwood Cemetery, Colchester, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12532]

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 30614]

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