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Federal (USV)

Private

Leopold Hindenlang

(1844 - 1929)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 16 January 1863 and filed for a US veteran's invalid pension later that month. He enlisted again, on 17 August 1863 as Leopold Long, a Private in Company G, 5th New Jersey Infantry, and was transferred to Company F of the 7th New Jersey Infantry on 6 November 1863. He was sent to Company G, 19th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 2 January 1864 and was discharged on 11 August 1865.

After the War

In 1910 he was living in Boston, MA.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll,1, the Record,2 and Stryker.3 Further details from his pension files via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1910.

He married Barbetta (or Babedde) Foster (b. 1847) and they had 2 children

Birth

06/1844 in GERMANY

Death

01/30/1929; Forest Hills, Boston, MA

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 657 [AotW citation 27184]

2 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. 632 [AotW citation 27185]

3 State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, pp. 254, 339 [AotW citation 27186]

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