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(1842 - 1916)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
Of French-Canadian parents, in 1860 he was an 18 year old laborer living in a boarding house in West Hartford, CT. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company E, 3rd Connecticut Infantry on 11 May. He mustered out with them on 12 August. He enlisted again, on 6 September 1861, and mustered as a Corporal in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 28 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his jaw in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 1 October and discharged there for disability on 29 or 30 December 1862.
He enlisted for the third time, on 16 June 1864, at Constable, NY (near the Canadian border) in the 106th New York Infantry, but was not assigned to a company. He was discharged on 10 May 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a house carpenter in Hammonton, NJ, but by 1900 and to at least 1910 was a shoe maker in a factory there.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 the State of New York,2 also as Henry Pryer, and his pension cards, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, & 1910, and Beers' Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County (Vol. 1, 1901). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elmina S (?, 1834-1903) in 1868 and they had a daughter Mabel. He married again, Emma Fiske (1857-1927) in about 1903.
Birth
04/1842 in CANADA
Death
03/23/1916; Hammonton, NJ; burial in Greenmount Cemetery, Hammonton, NJ
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. 43, 331 [AotW citation 30667]
2 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1902, Ser. No. 33, p. 1331 [AotW citation 30669]
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 #568 [AotW citation 30668]