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(1834 - 1865)
Home State: New York
Education: Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University (Ph. B, 1854)
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was a flour merchant in Cape Vincent, NY. He enlisted for 3 months' service as a Private in Company D, First Rhode Island Infantry on 2 May 1861 and mustered out with them on 2 August. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 12th United States Infantry on 24 October 1861 and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 11 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company H at Antietam in September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was at Frederickburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, then on recruiting duty. He died of disease at Fort Hamilton in May 1865 at 30 years of age.
References & notes
His service from Heitman,1 Henry,2 and the Register,3 as J. Antoin Duvillard. His role at Antietam from Captain Blunt's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Du Villard. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Anna Russel Bartlett (1835-1885) in December 1857 in Providence, RI and they had a son Henry (1859-1943).
Birth
09/06/1834; Cape Vincent, NY
Death
05/08/1865; Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY; burial in Saint Johns Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cape Vincent, NY
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 391 [AotW citation 28833]
2 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pg. 303 [AotW citation 28834]
3 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866 [AotW citation 28835]