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(1845 - 1917)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 17 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal on 11 February 1864 and was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864. He was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, and paroled on 30 November 1864. He was discharged on 8 July 1865.
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, at least one of whom has his birth in 1846 and his death in 1916, and Gordon.2
He married Ursula M. Wright (b. 1852) in November 1870 and they had 3 daughters.
Birth
10/02/1845; Hartford, CT
Death
07/17/1917; Darien, 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. 620 [AotW citation 27046]
2 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27250]