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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph Glover

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 19 February 1863 and to Sergeant on 3 March 1864. He was killed at Petersburg, VA on 2 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

07/02/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Thompsonville 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, p. 334 [AotW citation 30687]

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