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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Henry A. Smith

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Haven, he enlisted on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Infantry Company B, First Connecticut Infantry on 23 April. He mustered out with them on 31 July. He enlisted again, on 2 September 1861, and mustered as a Corporal in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and transferred out, probably to Baltimore, on 30 September. He was discharged there for disability on 24 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 2 and Major Ward's after-action report.

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, pp. 9, 331 [AotW citation 30672]

2 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 #609 [AotW citation 30673]

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