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H.E. Garrigus
(1844 - 1922)
Home State: New Jersey
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his farmer parents and 3 siblings in Morris, NJ. He enlisted in Waterbury, CT on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863, was wounded again, on 7 May 1864 at Port Walthall Junction near Petersburg, VA, and was promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1865. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a mould maker in Waterbury, CT. In 1900 he was a carpenter and in 1910 a pattern maker at a machine company there. He had retired in Waterbury by 1920.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Horace Garrigan. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Dale B, original from Keeper Stuff, Shelton, CT.
He married Maria Ann Dailey (1849-1931) in April 1867 and they had 5 children (all in Waterbury, CT).
Birth
05/22/1844; Morris Plains, NJ
Death
12/08/1922; Waterbury, CT; burial in Fort Hill Cemetery, Waterbury, 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. 342 [AotW citation 30752]