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Federal (USV)

Private

Elisha Warren Callender

(c. 1845 - 1905)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 17, son of a stove manufacturer in Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot in the right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 3 October 1862 and was transferred out to Connecticut, date not given. He was discharged for disability on 11 January 1863 and began receiving an invalid veteran's pension in June 1863.

After the War

In 1870 he was living with his parents in Hartford, CT. He died of "acute alcoholism" at the Soldiers' Home in Togus, ME in 1905.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record,2 with hospital detail from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870, with his middle name and death details from Gordon.4 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1845 in CT

Death

07/07/1905; Togus, ME; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, 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. 152 [AotW citation 17068]

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. 622 [AotW citation 27011]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #172 [AotW citation 27012]

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 27271]

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