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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin C. Ray

(? - 1915)

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 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his regiment on 24 June 1865 at New Bern, NC.

After the War

He compiled and published The Old Battle Flags. Veteran Soldiers' Souvenir. Containing a brief historical sketch of each Connecticut regiment, the various engagements, casualties, etc., during the war of the rebellion ... in 1879 on the occasion of Battle-Flag Day, 17 September 1879 - on moving the State's battle flags from the arsenal to the new State Capitol.

References & notes

His service information from the Record.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

01/20/1915; 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 27162]

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