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S.F. Plumb

S.F. Plumb

Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Seth Frederick Plumb

(1836 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer on his brother John's modest place at Litchfield, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 where a bullet grazed his head, but did not break the skin, a piece of shell struck his rifle, and another bullet went through his blanket.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 5 January 1864 and was appointed Firt Sergeant on 16 May. He was commissioned (but not mustered) 2nd Lieutenant on 17 July but was killed at Fort Harrison near Petersburg, VA on 29 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Details from a letter he wrote friends at home on 20 September 1862, now at the Litchfield Historical Society; thanks to John Banks for hosting that on his blog. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his photograph contributed by Dale B, original from Keeper Stuff, Shelton, CT.

Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post Number 80 in Litchfield was named for him.

Birth

08/27/1836; Litchfield, CT

Death

09/29/1864; Fort Harrison, VA; burial in West Cemetery, Litchfield, CT

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, p. 342  [AotW citation 30597]