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(1840 - ?)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was 20 years old, probably a worker in a grist mill in East Windsor, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Rifle Company A, 3rd Connecticut Infantry for 3 months on 25 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 12 August 1861. He enlisted again, 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 mustered out with the regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was back in East Windsor and he worked in a woolen mill there. In 1880 he was in Bristol, CT and his occupation was listed as "works at clocks." He was laborer there in 1900.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900.
He married Mary E. Spencer (1846-1918) in Westerly, RI in September 1866 and they had two daughters, Clara and Eveline.
Birth
08/28/1840; East Windsor, CT
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, pp. 37, 632 [AotW citation 27212]