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Federal (USV)

Private

Adelbert F. Tefft

(1842 - 1908)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hebron, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 July 1862 and mustered on 24 August.

On the Campaign

He was with wounded by a gunshot to his hand, probably in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 4 October 1862 and was furloughed (or transferred to another hospital) on 4 November 1862. He was discharged for disability on 12 January 1863.

After the War

He returned to Hebron, CT and was a machinist there for the rest of his life. In 1870 and to at least 1880 he and his wife were living with (or next door to) his parents. He may have retired by 1900.

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record of Service.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,3 as Adelbert Teft. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Elizabeth Austin (1844-) two days after he mustered into service in August 1862. She began receiving a veteran's widow's pension after his death (and to at least 1920).

Birth

04/07/1842

Death

01/07/1908; burial in Saint Peter's Cemetery, Hebron, 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. 647  [AotW citation 26973]

2   State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 623  [AotW citation 26974]

3   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #107  [AotW citation 26975]