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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Curtis Burr

(1824 - 1880)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 36 year old baggage master at East Haven, CT. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company B, 3rd Connecticut Infantry on 14 May. He mustered out with them on 12 August. He enlisted again, on 18 September 1861, and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring Hospital at Sharpsburg, had his right leg amputated, and was discharged for disability 14 April 1863 at Smoketown, MD.

After the War

By 1870 he was a railroad freight agent back in East Haven.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson,1 who also has him as Henry C. Bun. His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Abigail Hulbert (1826-) in October 1850 and they had 3 children.

Birth

04/09/1824; Easton, CT

Death

10/27/1880; burial in Old Cemetery, East Haven, 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, pp. 147, 150 [AotW citation 16965]

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, pp. 38, 356 [AotW citation 30657]

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