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Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Somers, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his shin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to the 5th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 24 June 1863 and was promoted to Corporal on 1 November 1863. He transferred again, to Company H of the 10th Regiment, VRC, was promoted to Sergeant on 19 August 1864, and was appointed First Sergeant on 1 December. He was discharged 27 June 1865.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862.
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 27060]