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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Cunneen

(c. 1819 - 1879)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 43 year old farmer in Stafford, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was discharged on 6 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His 1862 occupation from Gordon.2 His death date and burial place from the record of his Government-supplied headstone.

Birth

c. 1819

Death

04/01/1879; burial in Monson, MA

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 27303]

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. 636  [AotW citation 27305]

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 27304]