James B. Whalen

From Hartford, he enlisted at age 17 as a Private in Company G, 5th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1861, but was discharged the next day for being under-age. He enlisted again, as a Corporal in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 18 July 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Sergeant on 2 October 1862, but was reduced to Private on 3 April 1863. He was promoted again to Corporal on 11 February 1864 and captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864. He was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, paroled on 30 November 1864, and discharged on 13 March 1865.

In 1870 he was a laborer in Hartford, CT. By 1900 he was a butcher there, and he had retired and was living in a hotel or boarding house at 80 State Street, Hartford by 1920.

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 1870, 1900, and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his birth in 1842.

He married Mary A. McDermott (c. 1852-1877) by 1870 and they had 4 children between 1873 and 1877; son John Francis Whalen (1873-) and three who died in infancy.

09/23/1843; Hartford, CT

03/16/1922; Hartford, CT; burial in Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield, CT