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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John Smith

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Norwich, CT. He enlisted on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private, date not given, and mustered out at the end of his term of enlistment on 20 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report.

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, p. 339 [AotW citation 30722]

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