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(c. 1837 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A painter from Norwich, about age 24, 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 by a gunshot to his left hip or thigh in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was initially treated in the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, then was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 3 October. He died of his wounds there on 16 (or 19) October 1862.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 Further wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as T.A. Fanning, Company E, and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1837 in NY
Death
10/16/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT
1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12533]
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 30616]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #704 [AotW citation 30617]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 205 [AotW citation 30618]