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J.J. White

J.J. White

Federal (USV)

Private

John J. White

(1839 - 1863)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield then was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 1 October. He was returned to his Company on 11 October 1862 but was back in a hospital, in Weverton (or Frederick), MD, by 13 February 1863 when he died of "chronic diarrhoea." He was probably buried near the hospital.

After the War

He was reinterred in the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Burial and disease details from the Cemetery History.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Florence Lacy Cellini.

Birth

05/05/1839; Enniscorthy, County Wexford, IRELAND

Death

02/13/1863; Weverton, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   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. 621  [AotW citation 27006]

2   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 #581  [AotW citation 27007]

3   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, pg. 61  [AotW citation 27008]