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Federal (USV)

Private

Austin Milleon Tullar

(1830 - 1896)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 30 year old bookseller in Bolton, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter on 19 September 1862, place not given, but the regiment was probably still on the battlefield of Antietam on that date. There is no later military record.

After the War

In 1870 he was back in Bolton and a farmer there.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Rhoda Maine (1838-1871) and they had 9 children between 1858 and 1871. She died in childbirth with the last two, twins Bertie and Nettie.

Birth

02/26/1830; Oswego County, NY

Death

04/08/1896; Waterbury, CT; burial in Quarryville Cemetery, Bolton, 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 27249]

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