A. Austin

Federal (USV)

Corporal

Albert Austin

(c. 1832 - 1886)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1869 he was a 28 year old mill worker in Plainfield, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on the 23rd. He was on General Burnside's expedition to North Carolina in early 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Sergeant on December 1862 and reenlisted in December 1863. He was wounded at Walthall Junction, VA on 7 May 1864 and appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company B, 11th Connecticut Infantry on 13 May 1865. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company K on 2 November 1865 and was briefly regimental Quartermaster from 25 November to muster-out on 21 December 1865.

After the War

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 14th United States Infantry on 9 August 1867 and promoted to First Lieutenant on 23 November 1874. He was still on active duty when he died in a fall in December 1886.

References & notes

His service basics from the Record,1 Heitman,2 and Henry.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed to the Historical Data Systems database by Steve Meadow.

Birth

c. 1832 in CT

Death

12/03/1886; Vancouver, WA; burial in Fort Vancouver Military Cemetery, Vancouver, WA

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. 345, 433, 438 [AotW citation 28916]

2 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. 175 [AotW citation 28917]

3 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pg. 240 [AotW citation 28918]

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