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Federal (USV)

Captain

Henry Samuel Welton

(1827 - 1899)

Home State: Virginia

Command Billet: Company Commander

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th United States Infantry, Company H

Before Antietam

In 1850 he was a 23 year old painter in Derby, CT. He was commissioned Captain, 4th West Virginia Infantry on 7 June 1861, but was discharged to accept the appointment as Captain, 19th United State Infantry on 5 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in command of Company H of the 19th US Infantry, part of the Provost Guard, Headquarters, Army of the Potomac at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He went to the Army of the Cumberland in the Spring of 1863 but resigned his commission on 25 November 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was again a painter, at Bayou Sara in West Feliciana Parish, LA but by 1880 he was a grain dealer in Springfield, IL. In 1889 he was a US Indian Agent at Carson City, NV.

References & notes

His service from Heitman1 and Henry.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, 1870, and 1880, and The Army and Navy Journal of 16 February 1889. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucy Matilda Buckingham (1830-1887) in October 1849 and they had 2 daughters.

Birth

07/08/1827; Waterbury, CT

Death

10/18/1899; Portage, WI; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Ansonia, CT

Notes

1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 1018 [AotW citation 29149]

2 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 2, pg. 217 [AotW citation 29150]

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