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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Henry E. Morgan

(1829 - 1908)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Stonington, he enrolled on 11 September 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 26 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #6 in Frederick, MD on 29 September and transferred elsewhere in Frederick on 1 October. He was discharged there for disability on 17 January 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1. Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, as hit in the left leg, and from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/08/1829

Death

12/25/1908; Westbrook, CT; burial in Jordan Cemetery, Waterford, CT

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. 347 [AotW citation 30777]

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 #s 80 & 106 [AotW citation 30778]

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