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(c. 1833 - 1867)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 28 year old carpenter in Barkhamsted, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was reduced to Private, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left ankle in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863, was promoted to Sergeant on 1 July 1865 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
He enlisted in Hartford on 3 January 1866 in the 3rd United States Artillery, and was an Artificer with Battery H, stationed at Fort Adams, RI. Returning to the post after a night of heavy drinking with a comrade in Newport, he fell, probably striking his head on the road, and was found unconscious the next morning. He died at the Fort that afternoon, 5 November 1867, from a brain hemorrhage.
References & notes
Basic casualty information from Nelson1 with detail from Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record 2 and the Registers.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His death detailed in G.A. Otis' A Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the Army of the United States (1871). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1833; Simsbury, CT
Death
11/05/1867; Fort Adams, Newport County, RI; burial in Fort Adams Cemetery, Newport, RI
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. 161 [AotW citation 17482]
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 30592]
3 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 62, p. 124 [AotW citation 30593]