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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Charles Shepard

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

Norwich, CT. He enlisted on 25 August 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company B on 1 February 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD and resigned his commission there due to disability on 14 February 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2

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, pp. 333, 339 [AotW citation 30682]

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 #74 [AotW citation 30710]

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