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(1835 - 1903)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 25 year old in Norwich, CT. He enlisted for 3 months' service on 22 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company B, 2nd Connecticut Infantry on 7 May. He mustered out with them on 7 August. He enlisted again, on 30 August 1861, and mustered as a Sergeant in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was appointed Orderly (First) Sergeant on 1 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded through the body in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862
by a musket ball, which entered six inches to the left of the umbilicus, and, passing somewhat downward, emerged an inch and a half to the left of the spine. The ball opened the descending colon ...
The rest of the War
He was treated by Surgeon T.H. Squire of the 89th New York at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 5 December. He was discharged there for disability on 9 January 1863 and began receiving a pension in April 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a house carpenter back in Norwich, and in October 1872 a pension examiner reported
the pensioner states that a portion of bone was discharged for the exit orifice several weeks after the infliction of the wound ... the injury to the parts at the junction of the ilium with the sacrum is what causes the most suffering, and unfits him for much manual labor.All the same, by 1880 he was farming at Killingworth in Middlesex County, CT and in 1900 he was again a carpenter, in Clinton, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, Nelson,2 the Patient List,3 and the MSHWR,4 quoted above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Eleanor H. MacDavie (1842-1915) and they had 3 children between 1864 and 1876.
Birth
03/04/1835; Norwich, CT
Death
03/26/1903; Clinton, CT; burial in Indian River Cemetery, Clinton, CT
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. 23, 339 [AotW citation 30717]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 210 [AotW citation 30718]
3 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 #882 [AotW citation 30719]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 95 [AotW citation 31594]