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Federal (USV)

Private

Ransom Sweetland

(1838 - 1911)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer living with his parents and 5 siblings on the family place at Manchester, CT. He enlisted on 4 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 24 December 1862.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he lived in Bristol, CT and worked in a clock factory. In 1900 he was a cement walk laborer there.

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 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lois Elvira Blakeslee (1843-1906) and they had a son George (1865-1916).

Birth

02/13/1838; Manchester, CT

Death

01/12/1911; Hartford, CT; burial in West Cemetery, Bristol, CT

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 30681]

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