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(1843 - 1932)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 6 siblings in Preston, CT. He enlisted on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was reduced to Private on 27 October 1862 and reenlisted on 23 December 1863. He was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864 and was listed as a deserter on 8 August 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was a sailor, again living with his parents in Preston but by 1880 was working in a dye house in Willington, Tolland County, CT. In 1900 he was a painter there, but had retired by 1910. In 1930, then 86 years old, he was a resident of the Masonic Home of Connecticut in Wallingford.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary E Schofield (1840-) in November 1876. He married again, Sarah L. Stanton (1856-1924) and they had 4 daughters between 1879 and 1890; each died less at than one year old.
Birth
08/1843; New London County, CT
Death
03/04/1932; burial in Old West Cemetery, Willington, 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, p. 339 [AotW citation 30720]