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Federal (USV)

Private

Norman S. Rhaum

(c. 1830 - 1891)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A farm worker in Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was transferred to Company F, 9th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 29 August 1863, promoted to Corporal on on 22 September, and discharged on 26 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and his deathh notice in the of . His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Zilpha A White (1842-1892) in about 1860 and they had 4 children.

Birth

c. 1830

Death

12/17/1891; Suffield, CT; burial in Woodlawn 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. 627 [AotW citation 27132]

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