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(1830 - 1887)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Groton, he enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was appointed First Sergeant on 26 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, First Battalion Connecticut Cavalry on 21 March 1863. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 23 September 1863 and mustered out on 2 August 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a night watchman in Groton and in 1880 he was a carpenter there. By 1885 and to his death in 1887 he was a clerk in the US Pension Office in Washington, DC.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Amos Clift, Jr. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 & 1880, and the Official Register of the United States (1885). His gravesite is on Findagrave; he also has a stone in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, CT.
His brother Lemuel was also wounded at Antietam.
Birth
05/15/1830; Groton, CT
Death
12/24/1887; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
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, pp. 78, 348 [AotW citation 30779]