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Federal (USV)

Private

James E. Pelton

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Barkhamsted, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the right hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 but died, probably of disease, on 24 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as J Pelton. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

04/24/1864; burial in Yorktown National Cemetery, Yorktown, VA

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. 338 [AotW citation 30703]

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