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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Whiting Wilcox

(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

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1825; Cornwall, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT

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]

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