Rufus Monroe Chamberlin

From Stafford, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

He was action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA, Florence, SC, and Charleston, SC. He was paroled on 10 December 1864 and mustered out with the regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.

In 1870 (listed as Monroe Chamberlin) he was a woolen operator in Stafford, Tolland County, CT. He was a barber in 1880 and stage driver in 1900 there. He had retired and was living alone in Stafford in 1900.

Service information from the Record.1 His presence at Antietam from a post about his father by John Banks. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910, with his middle name from Gordon.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sylvia Elvira Roper (1845-1907) in September 1865 in Southbridge, MA and they had a son Ellery (1868-1927).

His father Rufus Chamberlin (1819-1862), a Sergeant in Company I, was mortally wounded at Antietam.

04/23/1844; South Manchester, CT

04/28/1914; burial in Staffordville Cemetery, Staffordville, CT