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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry R. Morse

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 29 year old day laborer living with his parents and 2 siblings in Cornwall, CT. He enlisted on 21 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died on the field at Antietam on 18 September 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record2, which, like Major Ward's after-action report, says he was killed outright at Antietam on the 17th. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1831

Death

09/18/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12537]

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. 343 [AotW citation 30634]

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