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T. Conant, Jr.
(1841 - 1923)
Home State: Massachusetts
Education: [Mass.] State Normal School, Class of 1861
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old student at the State Normal School (now Bridgewater State University) in East Bridgewater, MA. On 18 May 1861, then in the Senior Class, he enlisted in Boston, and he mustered in as a Sergeant in Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May. He was wounded at Savage's Station, VA on 29 June 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded again, slightly, in the foot, in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 6 December 1862. He was discharged at the end of his term on 21 May 1864.
After the War
In 1868 he took over his father-in-law's homeopathic medicine practice in Glouchester, MA and was a physician there for the rest of his life. He was still practicing there during the influenza pandemic of 1918 and had finally retired by 1920, then nearly 80 years old, and lived with his son Harold and his family in Bridgewater, MA.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, notably Frederick Odell Conant's A History and Genealogy of the Conant Family in England and America (1887), the Catalogue and Circular of the State Normal School (1860, 1861), Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homoepathic Physicians and Surgeons (1873), and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a superb photograph at the Library of Congress.
He married Mary Sargent Worcester (1850-1927) in May 1867, and they had 6 children.
Birth
07/10/1841; East Bridgewater, MA
Death
03/24/1923; Boston, MA; burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 289 [AotW citation 29903]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29904]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 169 [AotW citation 29905]