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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

James B. Kilbourn

(1840 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old in Hartford, CT. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Rifle Company A of the 3rd Connecticut Infantry for 90-days service on 11 May. He mustered out with them on 12 August. He enlisted again, on 3 September 1861, and mustered as a Sergeant in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September. He was appointed First Sergeant on 8 September 1862.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the wrist in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 23 December 1863 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company K on 17 July 1864. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 23 August but was killed at Fort Harrison/Chaffin's Farm near Richmond, VA on 29 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record,1 as James B. Kilbourne. 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

07/16/1840; Hartford, CT

Death

09/29/1864; Chaffin's Farm, VA; burial in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, 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, pp. 345, 355 [AotW citation 30760]

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