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(1843 - 1921)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America with his family as a child, and they were living at Thompsonville, Enfield, Hartford County, CT by 1850. In 1860 he was a 17 year old day laborer in Thompsonville. He enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 5 January 1864 and was wounded on 3 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a machinist in Enfield. In 1910 he was retired and living in Glastonbury, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 with details from his papers at the Connecticut Museum [finding aid]. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1860, 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Harriet Lee (1844-1920) in June 1867 and they had 3 daughters.
Birth
12/1843 in ENGLAND
Death
10/20/1921; Hartford County, CT; burial in Thompsonville Cemetery, Enfield, CT
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. 336 [AotW citation 30688]