Carl Johann Frederick Helmuth Söckel

Known by Helmuth, he came to America with his mother in 1849 - has father had come two years earlier - and was a 15 year old tailor's son in Hartford, CT in 1860. At age 17 he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 July 1862.

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

He was paroled on 28 September 1862 at Winchester, VA, was at Camp Parole at Annapolis, MD, where he was listed as a deserter on 14 April 1863 (a designation later removed by an Act of Congress of 20 January 1897). He was back at Camp Parole by May 1863 and probably then served as an Army clerk in a Baltimore hospital to March 1864 when he returned to his regiment. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, where he died about October 1864.

Service information from the Record.1 Further details from a Report of the US Senate Military Affairs Committee (1895) on his case. Both have him as Helmuth F. Soeckel. Further details and his full name from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

05/16/1845; Berlin, Brandenburg, GERMANY

10/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA