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Federal (USV)

Private

Erastus Bottum

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 9 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 28 September 1862. He was admitted to a US Army hospital on 4 December 1862 with a wound and deserted later that month. He may have mustered out with the regiment in June 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll,1 as Erastus Bottom, and the Record.2

His widow applied for a veteran's pension in July 1891.

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 650 [AotW citation 27121]

2 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 27122]

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