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(1844 - 1915)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on the family farm at Woodbury, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 10 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the right arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 4 November 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a worker in a shear factory in Woodbury and in 1900 a blade dropper (?) in a knife factory there. He had retired in Woodbury by 1910.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Timothy Galpin. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Sarah J Purdy (1849-1914) in February 1866 and they had a son Wellington (1867-1912).
Birth
11/21/1844; Washington Township, Macomb County, MI
Death
12/17/1915; burial in New North Cemetery, Woodbury, 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 30702]