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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. Sweet

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a master carpenter, in 1860 he was an 18 year old carpenter's apprentice and lived with his parents and 4 younger siblings in Canterbury, Windham County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

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.

Birth

c. 1842 in CT

Death

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

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12547]

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 30647]

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