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C.A. Tennant
(1840 - 1863)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old clerk in Hartford, CT. At age 22 he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 1 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to Captain of Company D on that date.
The rest of the War
He was mortally wounded in his right thigh on the Providence Church Road at Suffolk, VA on 3 May 1863, and died of wounds and lockjaw at Fortress Monroe, VA on 24 May.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound and death details from Croffut & Morris.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a pre-war photograph of him. His picture here is from a photograph in the Clifford T. Alderman Collection at the Connecticut Historical Society.
Birth
1840; Hartford, CT
Death
05/24/1863; Fortress Monroe, VA; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
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. 620, 625 [AotW citation 27114]
2 Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, pg. 335 [AotW citation 27115]