(1831 - 1897)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 28 year old sawyer in New Haven, CT. 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 and promoted to Corporal to date from the battle.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was promoted to Sergeant on 1 September 1864. He was wounded again, at Fort Harrison near Petersburg, VA on 29 September 1864 and was discharged for disability on 8 July 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a planer in New Haven. He was probably a resident of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (Southern Branch) in Hampton, VA at his death in 1897.
References & notes
Birth
01/22/1831; New Haven, CT
Death
02/24/1897; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, VA
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 30680]