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Federal (USV)

Private

Lorenzo D. Jenner

(1839 - 1916)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old in Scotland, Windham County, CT, son of a "jack at all trades," and listed as a burner - probably a factory job. From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 12 February 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a "steam R.R." conductor in New Haven, CT.

References & notes

His service information from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Dora Malone (1841-) and they had a daughter Dora Elizabeth (later Sanders, 1874-1963).

Birth

01/09/1839; Scotland, CT

Death

08/06/1916; in CT; burial in Zion Hill Cemetery, Hartford, 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. 630 [AotW citation 27155]

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