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Federal (USV)

Private

Nelson D. Young

(c. 1833 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 27 year old shoe maker living on his brother Richmond's farm in Woodstock, CT. By then a mechanic in Union, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 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 died there on 21 July 1864.

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 also has a stone, probably a cenotaph, in North Ashford, CT.

Birth

c. 1833; Longmeadow, MA

Death

07/21/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA

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 27326]

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