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(1838 - ?)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer living with his parents and siblings on the family place in Griswold, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 11 October 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was back on his parent's farm in Griswold but he moved to Rhode Island about 1871 and by 1880 was a farmer in Warwick, RI. By 1915 he was retired and was living with his daughter Mary and her family in town in Warwick in 1920.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1920, and the Rhode Island State Census of 1885, 1905, & 1915. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Amelia Saunders (1843-1914) in November 1866 and they had a daughter Mary Eliza (1867-1934).
Birth
04/10/1838; Griswold, CT
Death
Date not known; burial in Brayton Cemetery, Warwick, RI
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 30729]