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(1842 - 1912)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer in Stafford, Tolland County, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by gunshot to his right side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 28 September and was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 24 October. He was discharged there for disability on 15 December 1862.
After the War
By 1880 he was a dyer in Monson, MA. In 1900 he was a teamster, and in 1910 was a laborer doing odd jobs there.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1910. His middle name from Gordon.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Adeline Amelia Winter (1843-1914) in June 1879 in Mondon and they had a son Henry Winter Bugbee (1880-1950).
Birth
01/17/1842; Stafford, CT
Death
10/13/1912; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Monson, MA
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. 147 [AotW citation 16956]
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, pg. 655 [AotW citation 27258]
4 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27259]