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Federal (USV)

Private

John A. Smith

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to the 159th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 17 February 1864 and was discharged on 24 September 1864 at the end of his original term of service.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from 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, p. 333 [AotW citation 30677]

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