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Federal (USV)

Private

Nelson Whiton

(1843 - 1904)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old carder in Stafford, CT, and he enlisted as a Private in Company C, First Connecticut Infantry on 20 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 31 July 1861. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured on 20 April 1864 at Plymouth, NC and was a prisoner at Andersonville. He was paroled, date not given, and was discharged at the Parole Camp, Annapolis, MD on 20 June 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was an express agent in Monson, MA.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/14/1843; Stafford, CT

Death

10/14/1904; Palmer, MA; burial in Oak Knoll Cemetery, Palmer, 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, pp. 10, 636 [AotW citation 27324]

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