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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John H. Simonds

(1829 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted and mustered on 27 September 1861 as a Corporal in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

[He] was a bright, willing, genial man, and a universal favorite. When shot through the body, he only said, "Good-by, boys: I'm going."

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 The quote above from the History.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/25/1829

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12557]

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. 356 [AotW citation 30605]

3 Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, p. 277 [AotW citation 30606]

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