D.H. Bennett

Federal (USV)

Corporal

David Henry Bennett

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 28th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Not quite 20 years old, he enlisted on 30 April 1861 in Medina, NY for two years and mustered as a Private in Company D, 28th New York Infantry. Soon after he wrote home to friends:

I left home [Keswick] to Medina to work for a man who I had worked with before. I was well acquainted with the Capt and the boys [of Company D]. Seventy-two of us drilled in Medina for 2 weeks. Then, we drilled in Albany for 6 weeks.

In December 1861 he wrote his widowed mother:

Left home last spring, then 2 months ill with measles and near death in Albany. Last 4 months in good health, weight 161 lb and height 67.5 inches.

He was promoted to Corporal in March or April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was "killed instantly while being carried from field wounded" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details and the letter quotes above from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a sixth-plate ruby ambrotype in the Matt Hagans Collection, published in Military Images, Autumn 2018.

Birth

06/21/1840; Keswick, Ontario, CANADA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Mann Cemetery, Keswick, Ontario, Canada

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 21, pg. 294 [AotW citation 22449]

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