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(1839 - 1920)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Willington, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in the Old Episcopal Church in Frederick, MD on 1 October 1862 and furloughed the same day. He transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863 and was discharged on 11 August 1865.
After the War
By 1896 and to at least 1905 he was a collector in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was Senior Vice Commander of Grand Army of the Republic Post #21. In 1920 he was retired and living in a boarding house in New Haven, CT.
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, the US Census of 1850, 1900, and 1920, and the Minnesota State Census of 1905. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Nancy Anna (or Anna Nancy) Hitchcock (1845-1908) in October 1867 (or 1860).
Birth
09/16/1839; Thompson, CT
Death
06/12/1920; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, 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. 124 [AotW citation 16296]
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 #113 [AotW citation 27253]
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 27254]