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Federal (USV)

Private

William Wakefield

(1837 - 1912)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A farmer in Stafford, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 23 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company A, 3rd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps on 4 July 1864 and was discharged for disability on 22 July 1865.

After the War

He was in Hennepin County, Minnesota by 1876 and to at least 1884, but by 1892 he was in Lincoln County, Oregon. In 1900 he was a dairy and fruit farmer at Big Elk, Lincoln County, and in 1910 he had retired and was living there with his son William and family.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 with details from Gordon.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1900 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Maria Louise Gould (1855-1912) in Hennepin County, MN in 1876 and they had 8 children

Birth

04/29/1837; Monson, MA

Death

09/08/1912; Eddyville, OR

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 27296]

2 Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl> [AotW citation 27297]

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