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Federal (USV)

Private

Theodore W. Sharp

(1843 - 1863)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an 18 year old mason in Farmington, CT when he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died of disease at the Knight US Army General Hospital in New Haven on 31 August 1863, not yet 20 years old.

References & notes

Service information from the Record 1 and Gordon.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

More on the Web

His name is on the Farmington Veteran's Memorial.

Birth

10/1843

Death

08/31/1863; New Haven, CT; burial in Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, 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. 638  [AotW citation 27343]

2   Gordon, Lesley J., 16th CV [Connecticut Volunteers] database [roster], Published 2014, first accessed 06 February 2022, <https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D0B38CB5864DA66C!107&authkey=!ACNE422k47Tnc_Q&ithint=file%2cxl>  [AotW citation 27344]