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Federal (USV)

Private

Horace G. Rouse

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of home builder and master carpenter Gardner Rouse (1806-1881), in 1860 he was a 23 year old carpenter in Plainfield, Windham County, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth A (?, 1836-1913) and they had a son William S Rouse (1859-1902).

Birth

04/08/1837; Plainfield, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Moosup, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12546]

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. 347 [AotW citation 30646]

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