Lemuel Clift

Son of a probate judge, in 1860 he was a 26 year old law student living with his parents, grandmother Clift, and 3 siblings in Groton, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

He was slightly wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1863 and was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 20 September 1864.

In 1870 he was a lawyer back in Groton, still living with his parents. By 1900 he was a lawyer at Fort Trumbull, CT. In 1910, then 76 years old, he was in Mystic, CT and still practicing the law, but he'd retired to Florida by 1920.

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Mystic, CT, and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Amos was also wounded at Antietam.

11/30/1833; Groton, CT

04/06/1920; New Smyrna Beach, FL; burial in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, CT