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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 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 by a gunshot to the body in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated on 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.
After the War
In 1870 he was a house carpenter back in Norwich, but by 1880 he was farming at Killingworth in Middlesex County, CT. 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 and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. 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 in CT
Death
1903; 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]