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Federal (USV)

Private

Marcius Dania Jewett

(c. 1841 - 1918)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer in Stafford, CT, and he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 22 September 1863 at the Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, VA.

After the War

In 1870 he was a farm worker at Ludlow, MA. He was later a farmer at Stafford Springs, CT. He was a resident at the Soldier's Home in Togus, ME on 4 occasions between 1906 and 1918, the final time admitted on 10 January 1918. He died there a month later.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 as Marcus D Jewett. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 and 1870, and the Register of Veterans at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch in Togus, ME. His gravesite is on Findagrave, also as Marcus.

Birth

c. 1841; Stafford, CT

Death

02/09/1918; burial in Togus National Cemetery, Togus, ME

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. 636 [AotW citation 27311]

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