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(1806 - 1900)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Stafford, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 23 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 4 March 1863.
After the War
In 1880 he was a 72 year old laborer in Stafford, CT. He died in Chicago at age 94.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Hiram Town. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his state-supplied marker has him as Hiram Town. He may actually have been buried in Brimfield, Masssachusetts.
He married Betsey Wales (1811-1844) in December 1829 and they had 5 children. He married again, Sarah Brackett (1824-1898) in March 1849.
Birth
05/05/1806; Thompson, CT
Death
03/07/1900; Chicago, IL; burial in Union Center Cemetery, Union, CT
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 27321]