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(1832 - 1915)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Voluntown, 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 wounded in the arm and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 6 October 1862 and returned to duty, date not given. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was discharged on 12 December 1865.
After the War
He went to Titusville, FL in about 1873 and was a "horticulturist" there in 1880. He had retired in Titutsville by 1900.
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 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his dates as 1830-1900 in error.
He married Sarah Jane Freeman (1835-1894) in Georgia in April 1866 and they had 2 children, both born in Florida.
Birth
05/1832; Voluntown, CT
Death
08/13/1915; Titusville, FL; burial in Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, Titusville, FL
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 [AotW citation 30775]