Andrew Gordon

He came to America with his family as a child, by 1847, and in 1860 he was a 17 year old cooper living with his parents and 6 siblings in Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September 1861.

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

He was reduced to Private on 20 March 1863. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was promoted to Corporal again on 26 March 1864. He was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 2 June 1864 and was discharged for disability on 31 May 1865.

He and his brothers David and George founded the Gordon Brothers Manufacturing Company, and made Shaker-style bonnets in Enfield, CT, though he also worked as a cooper there to about 1870. Due to failing sales of bonnets, they went into tin working and rag recycling about 1875; Andrew was superintendent of the rag shop to at least 1880. About 1900 they built a woolen mill on the north bank of the Scantic River. He had had retired by 1910, but the mill remained in family ownership to about 1940.

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and a description of his post-war businesses from Lucas A. Karmazinas for Preservation Connecticut. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

11/04/1843; Glasgow, SCOTLAND

01/13/1833; Hazardville, CT; burial in New Hazardville Cemetery, Hazardville, CT