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(1835 - 1910)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From New Hartford, he enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to USA General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October, transferred to GH #1 in Frederick on 24 January 1863, and was sent back to his unit on 27 January 1863. He was discharged on 25 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
In 1870 he was a stage driver and lived in the populous Charles Moon boarding house in Winchester, CT (Hattie Schofield, his future wife, was a chambermaid there). By 1880 he a hostler in the livery business in Winchester, and, in the last 7 years of his life, a night watchman.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Nelson,1 as Samuel Beach. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1870-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of details from his obituary in the Hartford Courant of 25 January 1910.
He married Harriet A “Hattie” Schofield (1842-1917) in 1873.
Birth
09/22/1835; Winchester, CT
Death
01/24/1910; Winsted, CT; burial in Forest View Cemetery, Winsted, 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. 126 [AotW citation 16333]
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 #119 [AotW citation 30589]
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, p. 336 [AotW citation 30590]