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Federal (USV)

Private

John O'Neal

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From 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 cheek in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 23 December 1863 and was captured at Drewry's Bluff, VA on 16 May 1864. There is no later military record.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as John O'Neil.

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. 346 [AotW citation 30768]

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