Joseph Hall Barnum

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, First Connecticut Infantry on 16 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 31 July 1861. He enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

He was in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to Captain of Company H on 20 September 1862.

He resigned his commission in February 1863 but was recommissioned on 7 April 1863.

Company H, Captain Joseph H. Barnum, which escaped capture [with the rest of the regiment at Plymouth, NC on 20 April] by being detached and sent to Roanoke Island for duty April 17, 1864, was re-enforced now and then by men who had previously been detached for special service, representing every company, or were absent, sick : also by a few who were exchanged or escaped from time to time; and this composed the Sixteenth Regiment in actual service.

He owned, edited, and published the Hartford Sunday Journal until at least 1900.

His service from the Record,1 source also of the quote above. Personal details above from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, which has his birth on 27 May.

He married Mary Martyn (b. 1838) in December 1861 and they had 4 children. He married again, the widow Mary Ann Root Phelps (1840-1915) in New York City in June 1874.

05/17/1838; East Hartford, CT

08/19/1902; Hartford, CT; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT