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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel Baker

(c. 1838 - 1919)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital near Sharpsburg then at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD. He was reduced to Private on 29 February 1863 and discharged for disability on 26 May 1863. He enlisted again, on 17 November 1864 as a Private in the First Battery, Connecticut Light Artillery and mustered out on 11 June 1865.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 Service information from the Record 2 and Ingersoll.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

11/21/1919; burial in Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, 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. 121 [AotW citation 16235]

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, pp. 101, 629 [AotW citation 27147]

3 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 654 [AotW citation 27148]

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