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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Oscar Winslow Hewitt

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old store clerk living with his parents and siblings on the family farm at Stonington, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was killed 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. His gravesite is online from Findagrave.

Birth

07/18/1840; North Stonington, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12549]

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. 348 [AotW citation 30651]

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