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(1836 - 1869)
Home State: Vermont
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A physician's son from Windsor, VT, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 17 July 1862, credited to Hartford.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his side 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 2 October 1862 and was sent on to Connecticut, date not given. He was transferred to the 24th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 17 February 1864 and was discharged on 9 July 1865. On 2 August 1864 he enlisted again, in the Regular US Army as a Hospital Steward in the General Hospital in Brattleboro, VT, and was discharged on 22 June 1866 at Madison Barracks, NY.
After the War
He was a machinist in Windsor at the time of his death of chronic gastritis at age 33 in 1869.
References & notes
His service information from the Record 1 and the Registers.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Eliza Buckley (or Bulkley, later Knapp, c. 1840-) in about 1861 in Brattleboro, VT (or in August 1864 in Hinsdale, NH) and they had a son Edward William (or William Edward, 1862-1946).
Birth
06/14/1836; Windsor, VT
Death
11/22/1869; Windsor, VT; burial in Ascutney Cemetery, Windsor, VT
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 27158]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 160, pg. 65; Vol. 161, pg. 207 [AotW citation 27159]
3 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 #62 [AotW citation 27169]