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Federal (USV)

Private

Albert Parkess

(1840 - 1910)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old farmer's son, he was a clerk in Stafford, CT when he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 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 26 February 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was in Stafford, CT. In 1880 he was a painter there. In 1900 he was in Hartford, CT.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His 1862 occupation from Gordon.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Eloise Foland (1845-1909) and they had 5 children between 1864 and 1872.

Birth

07/07/1840; Stafford Springs, CT

Death

12/18/1910; Stafford, CT; 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. 636 [AotW citation 27316]

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 27317]

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