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Federal (USV)

Private

Newton Willey

(1837 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 24 year old farmer on his father's place in South Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 17 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, and was discharged for disability on 6 February 1863. He enlisted again, as a Private in the 12th Connecticut Infantry on 4 January 1864 (not assigned to a Company), but was transferred 27 February 1864 and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 31st Regiment, US Colored Infantry. He died at home, probably of disease, on 15 October 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Hosptial detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/10/1837; Windsor, CT

Death

10/15/1864; South Wimdsor, CT; burial in Center Cemetery, South Windsor, CT

Notes

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, pp. 499, 621, 884 [AotW citation 27064]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 439 [AotW citation 27065]

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