F.E. Stoughton

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Frank E. Stoughton

(1834 - 1866)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company D, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 15 July 1862. He was appointed First Sergeant.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his regiment at the Sunken Road on 17 September at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company H, on 3 June 1863. He was wounded in action 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He was promoted to First Lieutenant, Company G on 10 June 1864, and to Captain of that Company on 29 July. He was discharged for disability on 1 January 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from Page1, with details from Goddard2. Further information is from his gravesite on Findagrave, source also of his picture, posted by Diane DeMarco, of unknown provenance.

Birth

01/10/1834; South Windsor, CT

Death

01/01/1866; burial in New Wapping Cemetery, South Windsor, CT.

Notes

1 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, pp. 417, 455, 468 [AotW citation 15313]

2 Goddard, Henry Perkins, Memorial of Deceased Officers of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1872, pp. 32 - 33 [AotW citation 15314]

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