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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Robert W. Burke

(1840 - 1915)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Lebanon, he enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was promoted to Sergeant on 1 July 1865. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson1 with detail from Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/11/1840; East Haddam, CT

Death

11/11/1915; Hartford, CT; burial in Trinity Church Cemetery, Portland, 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. 148 [AotW citation 16995]

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. 339 [AotW citation 30612]

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