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(c. 1842 - 1879)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Lebanon, CT. He enlisted at about age 19 on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 23 December 1863 and was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1863. He was wounded again, at Port Walthall Junction, VA on 7 May 1864 and was discharged on 12 December 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farm worker in Mansfield, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Julia Warren (1844-1866). He married again, Ellen M Nichols (1843-1916) and they had 3 children between 1868 and 1875.
Birth
c. 1842 in CT
Death
01/17/1879; burial in New Mansfield Center Cemetery, Mansfield Center, CT
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 30730]