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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Rutter Hall

(1838 - 1891)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old laborer in Simsbury, CT. He enlisted on 19 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 24 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 28 December 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he a farmer back in Simsbury.

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 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Nilan (1836-1921 and they. had 6 children between 1860 and 1874; 2 died very young.

Birth

1838; Townshend, VT

Death

02/26/1891; Simsbury, CT; burial in Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, 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. 334 [AotW citation 30684]

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