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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Caghans

(1827 - 1869)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to America about 1853 and by 1860 was a factory worker in New Hartford, CT. He enlisted and mustered on 7 October 1861 as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His hand was amputated. He was reduced in rank to Private (while absent) on 10 October and was discharged for disability on 26 May 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson,1 with details from Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record,2 as William Caghan. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his birthplace as England.

He married Margaret/Margaritte White (c. 1827-) in June 1849 in Manchester, England, and they had 8 children; the first born in England, the rest in Connecticut.

Birth

1827 in IRELAND

Death

10/01/1869; New Hartford, CT; burial in North Village Cemetery, New Hartford, 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. 151 [AotW citation 17061]

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. 336 [AotW citation 30591]

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