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(1840 - 1908)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his father's place in Avon, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred, possibly to Philadelphia, on 30 September 1862. He was discharged for disability on 2 February 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was back in Avon and working on his father-in-law Nathan L Case's farm there, but by 1880 he had his own farm in Avon.
References & notes
Wound and hospital information from Nelson1 and the Patient List.2 His service information from the Record.3 Personal details from family genealogists, notoably the Alford American Family Association, and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lucy Ruth Case (1849-1929) in April 1867 and they had 3 daughters; one died in infancy, the other two survived him.
More on the Web
See more about Franklin and a fine post-war photograph of him, in a post by John Banks.
Birth
10/15/1840; Avon, CT
Death
03/11/1908; Avon, CT; burial in East Avon Cemetery, Avon, CT
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 112 [AotW citation 16105]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #624 [AotW citation 27251]
3 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. 635 [AotW citation 27252]