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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry M. Stratton

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September and furloughed the next day. He was listed as a deserter in October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 which says only that he deserted in October 1862. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

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. 633 [AotW citation 27216]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #635 [AotW citation 27217]

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