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(1844 - 1924)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
At age 17, from Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured, with most of the regiment, at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864, was paroled on 30 November 1864, and mustered out on 24 June 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was a clerk in the Hartford post office, but by 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a traveling salesman for a silk mill. He'd finally retired in Hartford by 1920.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 His presence at Antietam from his recollection of the battle in the Hartford Daily Times of 17 September 1915; thanks to John Banks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Lillian Estelle Dart (1850-1925) in May 1871 in Hartford and they had a daughter Bessie May (b. 1873).
Birth
10/17/1844; New Haven, CT
Death
09/07/1924; Hartford, CT; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
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 27038]