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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Mortimer F. Lee

(1821 - 1883)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 39 year old farmer in Bristol, CT, and he enlisted as a Corporal of Company H, 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 reduced to Private while ill on 2 April 1863 and transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863, as a Corporal. He was discharged 10 August 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Bristol, CT.

References & notes

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

He married Jane F Bronson (1828-1881) in Bristol in July 1854 and they had 3 children.

Birth

07/13/1821; Bristol, CT

Death

05/05/1883; Bristol, CT; burial in Lake Avenue Cemetery, Bristol, 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. 637 [AotW citation 27342]

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