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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph H. Brotherton

(1830 - 1909)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 11th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old hatter in Bethel, CT. He enlisted on 13 December 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 11th Connecticut Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 17 October 1862.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again a hatter in Bethel. In 1900 he was a merchant there.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 as John H Brotherton. His service basics from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1830; Bethel, CT

Death

09/02/1909; burial in Center Cemetery, Bethel, 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. 143 [AotW citation 16651]

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, p. 466 [AotW citation 31393]

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