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Federal (USV)

Private

Mortimer J. Martin

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old on the William P Gates (step-father?) farm in Windham, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the fingers of his left hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 18 March 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845 in NY

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. 341 [AotW citation 30727]

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