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J. McCall
(1835 - 1864)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 24 year old railroad engineer living with his parents in Yantic, Norwich County, CT. He enlisted on 28 August 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was appointed First Sergeant, date not given, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 1 May 1862. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 15 August.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled, exchanged, and returned to duty, dates not given. He was promoted to Captain of Company K on 7 February 1863 and was killed at Drewery's Bluff, VA on 16 May 1864.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
Birth
06/03/1835; Bozrah, CT
Death
06/16/1864; Drewry's Bluff, VA; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, 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, pp. 339, 355 [AotW citation 30563]