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(1836 - 1869)
Home State: Vermont
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A physician's son, in 1860 he was a 22 year old machinist living with his doctor brother Elisha, sister Mary, and their parents in 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 left side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated and also served as a nurse at the Locust Springs field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, MD and was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 2 October 1862. He was sent on to New Haven, CT, date not given, and transferred to a hospital in Brattleboro, VT by 7 May 1863, where Surgeon E.E. Phelps, USV, his father, described his wound as a:
musket ball perforating the abdominal cavity, with lesion of the peritoneum only.He was transferred to the 24th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 17 February 1864, but on 2 August 1864 he enlisted again, in the Regular US Army as a Hospital Steward in the General Hospital in Brattleboro 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, likely related to his Antietam wound, 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 and the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. 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]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 35 [AotW citation 31578]