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Federal (USV)

Private

Moses S. Read

(1836 - 1866)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 25 year old farmer in Union, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 19 July 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 29 April 1863.

After the War

A farmer there, he died in Eastford, Windham County, CT of consumption (tuberculosis) in March 1866.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Clarissa Wentworth Watkins (1844-1921) in September 1864 and they had a daughter Clara Josie, who died as an infant.

Birth

10/07/1836; Portland, ME

Death

03/25/1866; Eastport, CT; burial in South Ashford Cemetery, Ashford, 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 27318]

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