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Federal (USV)

Private

Leonard Green Morrill

(1842 - 1866)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old in East Windsor, CT; his father Nathan was a spinner in a mill. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862. He was captured again, at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 10 December 1864 and discharged on 7 September 1865.

References & notes

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

Birth

1842 in MA

Death

06/22/1866; Middleborough, MA; burial in Central Cemetery, Middleborough, MA

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. 632 [AotW citation 27211]

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