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Federal (USV)

Private

Ashbury Jobes

(c. 1830 - 1906)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and returned to duty, date not given. He was promoted to Sergeant on 16 June 1863 but reduced again to Private on 5 October. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 2 March 1865 and discharged on 20 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Cynthia E. Fowler (1833-1888) in Wstfield, MA in January 1854 and they had at least 3 children.

His brother Richard was also in Company D and was wounded at Antietam.

Birth

c. 1830; Middletown Port, NY

Death

10/10/1906; burial in Old Center Cemetery, Suffield, CT

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 27116]

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