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Federal (USV)

Private

Silas A. Payne

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Farmington, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 28 September 1862 and returned to duty. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, where he died on 4 October 1864.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1

Death

10/04/1864; Andersonville, GA

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. 625 [AotW citation 27079]

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