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C.D. Garlick
(1844 - 1906)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From New Milford, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September 1861; he had just turned 17.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated by Surgeon Warner (16th Connecticut) in a field hospital on the Otto Farm near Sharpsburg and was at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville before he was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (USA GH) at Camp B, Frederick, MD on 5 December. He was transferred to the USA GH in New Haven, CT on 2 March 1863 and was there to at least July. He was in the regimental hospital in November 1863 and was discharged on 21 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
By 1870 he was a joiner in New Haven, CT but in 1880 he was a store clerk in Bridgeport, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Charles Garlie. Wound and hospital details from Nelson,2 the Patient List,3 and a piece about arrivals at the hospital in New Haven in the Hartford Courant of 6 March 1863. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph taken at Marken's Gallery in Frederick, MD, now in the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress.
He married Ellen Blakesley (1847-1923) in 1867 and they had 6 daughters.
More on the Web
His 29 September 1862 letter home from a Sharpsburg hospital and one dated 28 July 1863 from New Haven are online from the Western Connecticut State University; a letter he wrote his parents from the regimental hospital in camp near Portsmouth, VA on 15 November 1863 is at the Library of Congress.
Birth
09/08/1844 in NY
Death
04/25/1906; Stratford, CT; burial in Union Cemetery, Stratford, 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, p. 354 [AotW citation 30566]
2 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. 219 [AotW citation 30567]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #902 [AotW citation 30568]