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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Smith

(1831 - 1907)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut 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 leg 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 24 December 1863 and was discharged on 20 October 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a house carpenter in Bridgeport, CT.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Fisher (1851-) and they had 8 children between 1868 and 1884.

Birth

01/1831 in CT

Death

02/23/1907; Fairfield County, CT; burial in Huntington Lawn Cemetery West, Huntington, 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 30711]

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 #629 [AotW citation 30712]

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