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Federal (USV)

Private

Alonzo I. Richards

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 25 year old in Killingworth, CT. He enlisted and mustered as Private of Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 5 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was "killed instantly" by a gunshot 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.

Birth

c. 1835; New Haven, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12555]

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. 357 [AotW citation 30665]

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