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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel Lewis

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Plainfield, CT, he enlisted on 13 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private while absent sick, on 28 February 1863 and transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 December and to Sergeant on 1 January 1864. He was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 24 September 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report.

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 30764]

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