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Federal (USV)

Private

James Winchell

(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

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emily E. Peck (c. 1840-) and they had 5 children.

Birth

01/22/1831; New Haven, CT

Death

02/24/1897; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, VA

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 30680]