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(1842 - 1916)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old bread peddler living with his mother and step-father Holcomb and siblings in Thomsonville, 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 right forearm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal on 19 October 1862 and was discharged for disability on 13 March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a needle maker in Bennington, VT. In 1900 he was an Adventist Minister in the village of Sandy Hill, Kingsbury, NY.
He'd been ordained in the Advent Christian Church in 1872, and served in churches in Vermont, New York, and Connecticut until his retirement to Castleton, VT in 1914.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 with wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Mary Coffin Johnson in The Higleys and their Ancestry (1896), and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of an undated/uncredited obituary.
He married Martha Ellen Davidson (1841-1907) in May 1866 and they had 5 children.
Birth
06/12/1842; East Granby, CT
Death
10/07/1916; Hartford County, CT; burial in Enfield Street 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. 334 [AotW citation 30690]