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Federal (USV)

Private

Morris O'Brien

(c. 1843 - 1915)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old factory worker living with his Irish-born parents and 11 siblings in Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 10 October 1863. He enlisted again, on 11 December 1863, as a Private in Company A, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery and mustered out with them on 25 September 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker, living with his widowed mother and 4 younger siblings back in Enfield.

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 1850, 1860 & 1870 (which has his birth in CT). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843 in MA

Death

05/03/1915; Middletown, CT; burial in Old Saint Patricks Cemetery, Enfield, 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, pp. 125, 335 [AotW citation 30686]

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