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Federal (USV)

Private

Napoleon Bonaparte Remington

(1844 - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a factory overseer/manager, in 1860 he was a 15 year old factory worker living with his father and 5 siblings in 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 slightly wounded in the foot 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 was discharged for disability on 12 January 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was living in New Britain, Hartford County, CT, and was a rule (measuring) maker there to at least 1900.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Hospital detail from the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910.

He married Alice S Walker (1849-) in July 1867 and they had a daughter Madge. He married again, Emily I "Emma" Keam (1863-1930) in about 1885 and they had 3 daughters.

Birth

12/1844 in RI

Death

08/08/1917; Hartford County, CT; burial in New Britain, 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. 338 [AotW citation 30705]

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 #627 [AotW citation 30708]

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