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Federal (USV)

Private

James B. Martin

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 21 September and sent on to Washington, DC on the 25th. He was promoted to Corporal on 24 February 1863 and was wounded again, at Providence Church Road near Suffolk, VA on 3 May 1863. He was discharged on 8 July 1865.

References & notes

His service information from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

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. 629 [AotW citation 27152]

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 #302 [AotW citation 27170]

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