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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Elijah Lucas

(c. 1838 - 1873)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 23 year old weaver in Stafford, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 4 March 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His birthplace and 1862 occupation from Gordon.2 His burial place from a notice in the Stafford Springs Press of 26 March 1903[PDF]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838; Stockport, ENGLAND

Death

10/08/1873; burial in Stafford Springs Cemetery, Stafford Springs, 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 27300]

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 27301]

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