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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Oliver Woodworth Lathrop

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Milford, he enlisted on 8 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the neck in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 22 September 1862, 4 days before his 21st birthday.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/26/1841; Lebanon, CT

Death

09/22/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT

Notes

1   Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013  [AotW citation 12534]

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. 341  [AotW citation 30620]