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Federal (USV)

Private

Donald Levaughn

(1841 - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farm boy living with his parents and 4 siblings on their small place at Wethersfield, CT. He enlisted on 23 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 hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged on 24 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

After the War

In 1880 he was working in an ivory factory in Old Saybrook, 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 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/03/1841; Rocky Hill, CT

Death

03/06/1917; Rocky Hill, CT; burial in Center Cemetery, Rocky 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. 343 [AotW citation 30755]

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