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E. Smith
(c. 1843 - 1865)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 19 year old mechanic in Bristol, he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 30 November 1864 and was on his way back to the regiment when he drowned in the Potomac River after his transport, the steamer Massachusetts, collided with the barge Black Diamond on the Potomac River on the night of 23 April 1865. His body was not recovered.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Details and his picture (from the Connecticut State Library) from a fine post on his death by John Banks on his Civil War Blog.
Birth
c. 1843
Death
04/23/1865; ; burial in West Cemetery, Plainville, CT
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 663 [AotW citation 27336]
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, pg. 638 [AotW citation 27337]