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Federal (USV)

Private

John Howard Perry

(1843 - 1916)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old carriage painter living with his parents and siblings in Hartford, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was transferred to Company I, 4th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 26 September 1864, served in the hospital at the Rock Island, IL prison, and was discharged on 17 July 1865.

After the War

He moved to Nashville, TN about 1881 and was a house painter. He had retired there and was living with his son Earl and family in 1910.

References & notes

His service information from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1900, and 1910. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Louisa Elizabeth Briley (1859-1926) in January 1881 in Nashville, and they had two children.

His brother William Laroy Perry (b.1842) was a Sergeant in Co. K, 9th Connecticut Infantry April 1862 - August 1865.

Birth

09/13/1843; Worthington, MA

Death

01/13/1916; Nashville, TN; burial in Spring Grove 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 27157]