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(1830 - 1907)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
Living in Somers since about 1858, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and captured.
The rest of the War
He was paroled, date not given. He was discharged 5 April 1864 (or 1865) to accept the commission as First Lieutenant, Company C, 31st US Colored Infantry. He transferred to Company F on 19 October and was promoted to Captain, date not given. He transferred again, to Company H in November with no later record. They mustered out on 7 November 1865.
After the War
In 1875 he was a public school teacher in Kingston, Ulster County, NY and by 1880 he was Superintendent of [the Transit/Transient?] School in Springfield, MA.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1. His service from the Record,2 as R. Cecil Barrett, which is how he's seen in most documents. Personal details from family genealogists, the NY State Census of 1875, and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Catherine Hewins Fuller (1830-1911) in October 1853 in Sharon, MA, and they had 5 children, the last born in October 1862. Catherine and R. Cecil's mothers were both Hewinses, cousins.
Birth
05/26/1830; Webster, MA
Death
02/05/1907; Burlington, IA; burial in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
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. 124 [AotW citation 16290]
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. 620, 884, 890 [AotW citation 26987]