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(1844 - 1921)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A laborer's son from Plainfield, CT, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 28 September and sent on to Philadelphia on 30 September 1862. He was discharged for disability on 14 February 1863.
After the War
By 1870 he was an overseer in a cotton mill in Woonsocket, RI and he worked in a mill in Lincoln, Providence County, RI in 1880. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he lived in Central Falls, RI and worked as a loom section hand in a textile mill. He had finally retired there by 1920, then age 75.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Hesper Margaret Clifford (1844-1901) in December 1867 and they had 7 children. He married again, Ella Frances Young (1863-1946) in April 1907.
Birth
03/22/1844; Plainfield, CT
Death
06/1921; burial in Moshassuck Cemetery, Central Falls, 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. 347 [AotW citation 30771]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #643 [AotW citation 30772]