Henry Fitch Tracy

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.

He was in Maryland with his Company in September 1862 but was probably overcome by sunstroke and was left in the rear at Antietam on 17 September. Later in the day he reported to a field hospital in the Otto barn to assist Surgeons [Abner] Warner and [Nathan] Mayer. A few days later he moved with most of the patients to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in Sharpsburg under Surgeon E. M. McDowell.

He was ill again after Antietam and was discharged for disability on 27 January 1863.

In 1870 he was a tinner (tin plater) in Springfield, MA. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a tinner and tinsmith in Enfield, Hartford County, CT. In 1910 he had retired and he lived in Hartford with his youngest daughter Mabel.

His service from the Record.1 His role at Antietam from his recollections in the Hartford Daily Times of 17 September 1915; thanks to John Banks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Adelaide Eugenia "Addie" Porter (1843-1902) in about 1862 in Hartford and they had 9 children.

06/13/1838; Lisbon, CT

07/17/1919; burial in New Hazardville Cemetery, Hazardville,