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Federal (USV)

Private

Alton H. English

(c. 1843 - 1863)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old factory worker living with his parents and 2 younger sisters in Waterbury, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 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 discharged to enlist in Battery M, 3rd United States Artillery on 25 October 1862 in Pleasant Valley, MD. He died of lung disease on 13 November 1863 at the Hickman Bridge Military Hospital at Camp Nelson, KY.

References & notes

His service from the Record 1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843; Seymour, CT

Death

11/13/1863; Nicholasville, KY; burial in Camp Nelson National Cemetery, Nicholasville, KY

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. 343 [AotW citation 30750]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, p. 237 [AotW citation 30751]

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