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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Whiting Wilcox

(c. 1825 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

About age 36, from New Haven, CT, he mustered as Sergeant, Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

A member of the color guard, he was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

[He] was a broad-shouldered six-footer, a model soldier. He was conspicuous in the charge but the bravery which would have won him promotion cost him his life.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll.1 His death also in Major Ward's after-action report, as Whitney Wilcox. The quote above from the History.2 Personal details from family genealogists. He has a cenotaph in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, on Findagrave.

He married Diana A. G (?, 1824-1904) and they had 2 children by 1852.

Birth

c. 1825; Cornwall, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

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. 314  [AotW citation 25795]

2   Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, p. 277  [AotW citation 30604]