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Federal (USV)

Private

Michael H. Welch

(? - 1883)

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 6 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864, a prisoner at Andersonville, paroled on 28 February 1865, and discharged on 21 June 1865.

References & notes

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

Death

12/05/1883; burial in Saint Patricks 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. 631 [AotW citation 27166]

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