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(1841 - 1902)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old tinner/tinsmith in Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, First Connecticut Infantry on 22 April. He mustered out with them on 31 July. He enlisted again, on 17 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 27 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was reduced to Private on 19 October and reenlisted on 24 December 1863.
He transferred to the US Navy on 4 May 1864 as an Ordinary Seaman and served on the USS Florida (May 64-), USS Quaker City [?], USS Wabash (January 65-), and USS Hunchback. He was discharged on 25 July 1865.
After the War
He was again a tinsmith, by 1880 in Springfield, MA and by 1900 in Agawam, MA.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 and the US Navy Rendezvous Reports Index, online from fold3. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Christopher Gray. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his recent government stone has him as Christopher C. Guy.
He married Ida C. Burlingame (1853-1914) in April 1871 and they had 6 children; 3 died young.
Birth
11/07/1841; Norwich, CT
Death
11/04/1902; Springfield, MA; burial in Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, MA
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. 10, 334 [AotW citation 30685]