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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry Bristol

(1834 - 1908)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 25 year old mechanic in Bristol, CT, and he enlisted as First Sergeant of Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant of Company A the same day.

The rest of the War

He resigned his commission for health reasons on 26 May 1863.

After the War

By 1880 he was a grocer in New Haven, CT, and he was a manufacturer there in 1900.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lydia Emeline Parlin (1836-1905) in Bristol in July 1854 and they had 3 children.

Birth

10/29/1834; Cheshire, CT

Death

02/17/1908; New Haven, 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, pp. 620, 637 [AotW citation 27341]

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