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Federal (USV)

Private

Cyrus V. Johnson

(1842 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old mariner living with his father, a machinist, step-mother, and 2 younger siblings in Hartford, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 1 October, sent to GH#1 there on 15 January 1863, and back to GH#4 on 20 January. He was promoted to Corporal on 28 March and reenlisted on 24 December 1863, but was reduced again to Private on 20 February 1865. He was promoted to Corporal again on 1 March 1865, back to Private on 1 July, and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a sailor/pilot back in Hartford with his father, step-mother, and brother Laban.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Cyrus D. Johnson, and Major Ward's after-action report, who described his wound as "slight." Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/14/1842 in MA

Death

Date not known; burial in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA

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. 331 [AotW citation 30674]

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 #570 [AotW citation 30675]

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