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A.J. Cotney
(1845 - 1893)
Home State: Connecticut
Education: He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old farm boy on his parents' place in Waterbury, CT. He enlisted there on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded in the shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863, was appointed Corporal on 1 September 1865, and mustered out on 12 December 1865 in Lynchburg, VA.
After the War
In 1870 he was in Middletown, CT and was a Baptist clergymen in Danbury, CT by 1887. He died of tuberculosis in Middletown at age 47.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists, notably A.P. Pitkin's Pitkin Family in America (1887), and the US Census of 1860-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs now at the Library of Congress.
Birth
10/20/1845; Longmeadow, MA
Death
08/12/1893; Middletown, CT; burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, CT
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 [AotW citation 30506]