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Federal (USV)

Private

Lewis F. Allen

(1831 - 1906)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 27 year old laborer in Cheshire, New Haven County, CT. He enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863, and was wounded twice more; at Port Walthall Junction on 7 May 1864 and at Petersburg on 15 June 1864. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in April 1879 and his widow collected it after his death.

References & notes

Antietam casualty basics from Nelson. 1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his pension card, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/23/1831; Kent, CT

Death

10/22/1906; Waterbury, CT; burial in Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury, CT

Notes

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. 113 [AotW citation 16118]

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 30655]

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