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(c. 1839 - 1883)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old in Plainfield, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 10 March 1863.
After the War
By 1880 he was working in a cotton mill in Cumberland, Providence County, RI.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Asil Mann. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Azil Mann. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (as Ashael Mann) & 1880 (as Asel Mann). His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Ashul and Asel.
He married Rosanna Beecher (later Haskins, 1853-1894) in December 1867 in Rhode Island and they had a daughter Anna. He married again, the widow Abby Ann Greene Cahoon (1837-1895) in May 1876 and they had a son Morton.
Birth
c. 1839 in MA
Death
06/03/1883; Scituate, RI; burial in Jeremiah Harrington Lot, Scituate, RI
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. 346 [AotW citation 30765]