William Huntington

A farmer's son from Lebanon, CT, age 22, he enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 10 February 1862.

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

He was appointed First Sergeant on 9 January 1863 and reenlisted on 23 December 1863. He was wounded again at Port Walthall Junction, VA on 7 May 1864 and transferred to the 37th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 20 February 1865. He transferred to the 36th Company and was discharged, then a Private, on 5 September 1866.

In 1870 he was a farmer on his recently widowed mother's place at Lebanon and by 1880 had his own farm there. In 1900 he was a carman (teamster) in Hartford, CT but in 1910 was dealing in houses/real estate.

His service from the Record.1 His wound at Antietam also in Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Caroline Elizabeth Saxton (1842-1923) in January 1871 and they had 5 daughters; their second, Elizabeth, died at 13, the other 4 lived into their 80s and 90s.

05/18/1839; Lebanon, CT

08/06/1918; Hartford, CT; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT