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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Morris Chadwick

(1836 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Stafford, going by Morris, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

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 on the Geeting farm at Keedysville, MD near the battlefield. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA. he died there while a prisoner on 20 September 1864.

References & notes

Casualty and hospital information from Nelson.1 His service from the Record;2 both as Morris S. Chadwick. His full name and birth details from the Vital Records of Windsor, MA. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

10/03/1836; Windsor, MA

Death

09/20/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA

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. 158 [AotW citation 17300]

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. 635 [AotW citation 27265]

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