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(1834 - 1870)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A teacher and farmer on his father's place at Hartland in Hartford County, he enlisted in Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was sick in hospital with Cholera, but left the hospital to return to his Company on the Campaign, rejoining on 16 September. He was in action with them at Antietam on the 17th.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on 28 December 1862.
References & notes
His basic service information from Ingersoll1. His presence at Antietam from his letter home of 14 October 1862, transcribed online by Griff on Spared & Shared. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Massachusetts, and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Orcelia M Persons (1834-1902) in December 1859 and they had 6 children.
Birth
09/24/1834 in CT
Death
04/07/1870; Hartland, CT; burial in East Hartland Cemetery, Hartland, CT
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. 652 [AotW citation 26360]