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Federal (USV)

Private

John B. Ball

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 6 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 sent to Camp Parole at Annapolis, MD in November 1862, but "failed to report" with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1

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. 626 [AotW citation 27119]

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