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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

John M. Waters

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He resigned on 13 October 1862 but was re-mustered as First Lieutenant, Company C on 21 May 1863. He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and held in the prison camp at Savannah, GA:

While at this prison Lieutenant John M Waters was taken sick with bilious fever. After a sickness of two weeks he was taken into the hospital on August 17th, dying the next day at 11 AM. On the 19th Chaplain Dixon was allowed to go out and perform the last duty of respect to our comrade in the presence of the Commander of the prison, Officer of the Day, Officer of the Guard, two Lieutenants, and four privates. Lieutenant Waters was very genial and, until his sickness, had kept up good courage.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1 The quote above from Blakeslee.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

08/28/1864; Savannah, GA; burial in Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC

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, pg. 623  [AotW citation 27075]

2   Blakeslee, Bernard F., History of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteers, Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Printers, 1875, pg. 82  [AotW citation 27076]