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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Francis Arnold Trask, Jr.

"Frank"

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Plainfield, he enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was killed, shot through the chest, 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 1850. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary J McKinney (1837-1907) and they had a daughter Grace Irene Trask (1856-).

He may have been Francis Arnold Trask, Jr, born Rhode Island c. 1838 per .

Birth

c. 1838 in RI

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Putnam Heights Cemetery, Putnam, CT

Notes

1   Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013  [AotW citation 12548]

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 30648]