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Federal (USV)

Private

Elisha Risley

(1843 - 1900)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Glastonbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 13 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He may have been wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and was detailed as a nurse at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, MD the next day.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 27 June 1863.

After the War

In 1880 he was a life insurance agent in Springfield, MA.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and Ron Schack in The Courier (September 2012), the journal of the Manchester Historical Society. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah J Reed (1851-1933) in February 1874 and they had 6 children.

Birth

01/11/1843; East Hartford, CT

Death

01/16/1900; Hartford, CT; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, 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. 634 [AotW citation 27240]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 366 [AotW citation 27241]

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