Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Groton, CT, he enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.
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. 349 [AotW citation 30786]