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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Costello

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Windham, CT. He enlisted on 5 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was promoted to Corporal on 21 March 1864. He was killed at Petersburg, VA on 16 July 1864.

After the War

In 1880 he was still painting houses in Norwich.

References & notes

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

Death

07/16/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Willimantic, CT

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 30726]

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