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Federal (USV)

Private

Dwight Pierce

(c. 1841 - 1914)

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 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was in US Army hospitals in Frederick, MD from 1 October to 30 December 1862. He was transferred to Company F, 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, date not given.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841

Death

11/17/1914; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Windsor, 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. 627  [AotW citation 27130]

2   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #208, 688  [AotW citation 27131]