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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert Watson

(1828 - 1869)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to America with his parents and siblings between 1845 and 1848 and was probably in Simsbury, CT at the start of the war. He enlisted on 15 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the groin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and transferred to Company B two days later. He was wounded again, on 16 June 1864 at Petersburg, VA and discharged for disability on 31 July 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Antietam wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/13/1828; Abbey, Renfrewshire, SCOTLAND

Death

06/28/1869; Simsbury, CT; burial in Tariffville Cemetery, Tariffville, 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, pp. 336, 338 [AotW citation 30713]

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