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(1841 - 1885)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his left side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was captured, along with most of the regiment, at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 30 November 1864 and was discharged for disability on 3 June 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was a painter in Bolton, CT.
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, at least one of whom has him born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, and the US Census of 1880 (which says he was born in Ireland). His father John (1817-1904), a physician, was born in Keady, County Armagh. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married
Agnes M. Keeney (1841-1928) in CT in 1864 and they had at least 5 children by 1880.
Birth
12/25/1841 in IRELAND
Death
01/25/1885; Bolton, CT; burial in Old North 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 27059]