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Federal (USV)

Private

Dwight Carey

(1846 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his grandfather Carey and parents on the family farm at Canterbury, Windham, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, 16 years old.

References & notes

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

Birth

01/21/1846; Canterbury, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Carey Family Cemetery, Canterbury, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12541]

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. 345 [AotW citation 30641]

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