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"Frank"
(c. 1839 - 1887)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old harness maker living with his tavern-keeper parents and 6 siblings in Shoreham, VT. He enlisted on 17 April 1861 in Providence and mustered as a Private in Company I, First Rhode Island Infantry (Detached Militia) on 2 May. He mustered out on 2 August.
Giving his home as Stonington, CT, he enlisted again, on 11 September 1861, and mustered as a Corporal in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 4 October and returned to duty on 17 January 1863. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 August 1863 but reduced to Private, date not given. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a harness maker in Providence, RI, but by 1880 he worked for the gas company there.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 and the Register.2 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, as T.D.V. Sloan, and the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Ann Josephine Thurston (1836-) in October 1861.
Birth
c. 1839; Milton, VT
Death
10/26/1887; Providence, RI; burial in River Bend Cemetery, Westerly, 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. 348 [AotW citation 30780]
2 State of Rhode Island, and Henri Crandall, Acting Adjutant General, Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers ... 1861 to 1865, in the Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Rhode Island for 1865, Providence: Providence Press, 1866, p. 54 [AotW citation 30782]
3 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 #75, 1.152 [AotW citation 30781]