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Federal (USV)

Private

Lewis Stillman Grannis

(1835 - 1902)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old factory worker in Waterbury, CT. He enlisted on 17 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his left foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October 1862 and was discharged there for disability on 4 March 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he worked in a brass mill in Waterbury.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 He's also seen as Lewis Granniss. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Emma Deming (1839-1909) in May 1857 and they had 5 children.

Birth

07/27/1835 in CT

Death

09/30/1902; in CT; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, 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 30758]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #203 [AotW citation 30759]

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