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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

David Lake

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Milford, he enlisted on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He as promoted to Sergeant on 5 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed, shot in the hip and bowels, in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Center Cemetery, New Milford, CT

Notes

1   Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013  [AotW citation 12552]