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Federal (USV)

Private

Ethelbert French

(c. 1839 - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the left side of his chest in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 3 February 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a machinist in Hartford, CT. He was a letter carrier there in 1880, a tool maker in 1900, and a gauge maker in a machine company in 1910.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910.

Birth

c. 1839; Washington, DC

Death

01/11/1917; Hartford, CT

Notes

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. 621 [AotW citation 27036]

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