(1820 - 1888)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A clock maker's son, in 1860 he was a 39 year old farmer living with his parents and 2 younger siblings in Litchfield, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 5 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
In 1880 he was an unmarried laborer living with his brother Edward in Torrington, CT.
References & notes
Birth
07/29/1820; Harwinton, CT
Death
07/19/1888; Litchfield, CT; burial in Center Cemetery, Torrington, 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. 337 [AotW citation 30701]