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C.T. Lanphear
(1830 - 1913)
Home State: Rhode Island
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
Giving his residence as Stonington, 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 leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was discharged for disability on 15 February 1865.
After the War
From 1872 to at least 1888 he was partner in a wholesale fish dealer at the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. In 1892 he was a tailor (?) living in Brooklyn, NY, but by 1900 he had retired there.
References & notes
His service from the Record,1 as Clark T Lamphear. Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as C.F. Lamphire. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1900 & 1910, the New York State Census of 1892, and Illustrated New York (1888). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Melissa White.
He married Mary Emeline Tuthill (1833-1863) in November 1854 and they had a daughter Frances. He married again, her sister Juliette Melvina Tuthill (1846-1910).
Birth
12/11/1830; Westerly, RI
Death
10/12/1913; in NY; burial in East Marion Cemetery, East Marion, NY
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 30788]