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Federal (USV)

Private

Lewis P. Card

(1840 - 1902)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Griswold, CT, he enlisted on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 26 October 1862 and began receiving a veteran's pension in November.

After the War

By 1880 he was a merchant living alone as a border with the Alden family in Palatine, Cook County, IL. In 1900 he was a Justice of the Peace in Harvard, IL.

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 1880 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ludencia Maria Blevin (1839-1893) in December 1860 and they had a son Charles. He married again, Nellie Hogan (1854-1930) in December 1888.

Birth

07/24/1840 in RI

Death

07/12/1902; in IL; burial in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Harvard, IL

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. 345 [AotW citation 30762]

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