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Federal (USV)

Private

John Edson Tuttle

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old mechanic living with his widowed mother Martha and 2 younger siblings in Woodbury, Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was killed, shot in the chest - possibly by 'friendly fire' - in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

01/22/1841; Woodbury, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12540]

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 [AotW citation 30637]

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