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Federal (USV)

Private

Ransom William Castle

(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

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 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/29/1820; Harwinton, CT

Death

07/19/1888; Litchfield, 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, p. 337 [AotW citation 30701]

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