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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William Henry McCarty

(1842 - 1926)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Torrington, he enlisted on 15 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in both legs and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was paroled on 19 September.

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company D on 19 October 1862 but was discharged for disability on 4 March 1863.

After the War

He worked in the Torrington brass mill for many years; by 1880 he was a caster there and in 1900 a foreman. In 1910 he was a woodworker in a hardware shop in Torrington and by 1920, then 77 years old, had finally retired.

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 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jane E "Jennie" Johnson (1845-1929) in August 1863 and they had 2 children.

Birth

03/05/1842; Tolland, MA

Death

03/26/1926; Torrington, CT; burial in Center Cemetery, Torrington, 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. 337, 339 [AotW citation 30700]

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