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(? - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Winchester, CT, he enlisted on 12 October 1861 and mustered as Private, Company D, 11th Connecticut Infantry on 12 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll.1
More on the Web
See more about Lewis's death at Antietam in a letter of 21 September 1862 written by his brother George L. Dayton, presented by John Banks on his Civil War Blog.
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 475 [AotW citation 20507]