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Federal (USV)

Private

William Perry Amadon

(1839 - 1904)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A machinist in Stafford, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to Sergeant the same day.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his Company at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a machinist in Stafford, CT, later Superintendent of the S.B. Amadon foundry and machine shop, his brother Samuel's company. He held various local public offices in Stafford.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists, a bio clip from the NY Public Library, and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/30/1839; Great Barrington, MA

Death

10/20/1904; burial in Staffordville Cemetery, Staffordville, 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. 635 [AotW citation 27293]

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