(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
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]