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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Elliot Savage

(1840 - 1907)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his father's place in Berlin, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to Sergeant the same day.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 10 December 1864 and mustered out with the regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he worked his own farm at Berlin.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Theodosia Caroline Knapp (1842-1925) in December 1865 in Greenwich, CT, and they had 5 children.

Birth

02/09/1840

Death

01/04/1907; burial in Wilcox Cemetery, Berlin, 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 27207]

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