(1845 - 1920)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old in Wallingford, New Haven, 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 slightly wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1864 but reduced again to Private on 1 September 1865. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a box maker, back in Wallingford and in 1880 he worked in a Brita shop (?) there. In 1900 he was an iron polisher in Southington, in 1910 a gardener there, and in 1920, the year of his death, was a farm worker at age 74.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1 and Major Ward's after-action report, as Lumen D Allen. His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Susan Watkin Addis (1849-1918) and they had 2 children (born 1875, 1888).
Birth
03/1845; Wallingford, CT
Death
09/24/1920; Noroton, CT; burial in Veterans Cemetery, Darien, 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. 113 [AotW citation 16119]
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 30656]