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Federal (USV)

Private

Lucius S. Benton

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He was in Company E, 11th Connecticut Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring and Smoketown Hospitals at Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1.

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. 130  [AotW citation 16403]