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N. Bronson
(1831 - 1903)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of bone and horn button manufacturer Anson Bronson, in 1860 he was a 29 year old factory worker, probably with his father, living with his parents and 2 siblings in Waterbury, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was appointed First Lieutenant on 18 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm and back in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability 17 January 1863. He mustered-in again, as First Lieutenant in the Veteran Reserve Corps on 19 August 1863, was initially posted to Smyrna, DE, and later served in support of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Land (BRFAL) in New Orleans, LA. He mustered out of the VRC on 15 October 1866.
After the War
He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 42nd United States Infantry on 28 July 1866, transferred to the 6th US Infantry on 22 April 1869, and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 8 June 1874. He retired on 30 November 1879.
In 1880 he was living in Bristol, CT, but by 1900 had moved to Brooklyn, NY.
References & notes
Casualty information from Nelson1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record2 and Heitman.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. He was originally buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, and still has a stone there, but was moved to Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury in 1922; both via Findagrave. His photograph from the WikiTree genealogical database, contributed by a Beck descendant of Nelson's daughter Clara.
He married and had a daughter Ellen in 1854. He married again, Emmogene Bradley (1842-1918) in March 1859 and they had as many as 13 children by 1893.
Birth
11/1831; Waterbury, CT
Death
12/15/1903; Brooklyn, NY; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT
1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 143 [AotW citation 16644]
2 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 30629]
3 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 247 [AotW citation 30630]