F.D. Jerome

Federal (USV)

Private

Francis Denison Jerome

"Frank"

(c. 1838 - 1863)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A farmer's son from Montville, CT, he enlisted at about age 23 on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was killed at Ft. Huger on the James River near Hampton Roads, VA on 19 April 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Frank Jerome. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph at the Connecticut Museum, contributed by Dale L.

Birth

c. 1838; Waterford, CT

Death

04/19/1863; Ft. Huger (Smithfield), VA; burial in Union Cemetery, Quaker Hill, 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. 340 [AotW citation 30731]

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