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Federal (USV)

Private

Wallace C. Woodford

(c. 1842 - 1865)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm boy on his father's place in Avon, CT, and he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 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 on 10 December 1864 but died "at home" one month later.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. There were 3 other Woodfords in the regiment; they do not appear to have been his brothers.

Birth

c. 1842 in CT

Death

01/10/1865; Avon, CT; burial in West Avon Cemetery, Avon, 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 27325]

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