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Federal (USV)

Private

Willis B. Richmond

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old comb maker living with the H.H. Brooks family in Meriden, CT. He enlisted on 25 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 30 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 Record2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12556]

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 30666]

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