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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Randall

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, 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 wounded in the right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Baltimore or Philadelphia on 30 September 1862. He reenlisted on 19 February 1864 and was wounded and captured at Drewry's Bluff, VA on 16 May 1864. He was paroled on 13 August 1864 and discharged for disability on 30 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Hospital detail from the Patient List.2

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 30704]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #628 [AotW citation 30707]

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