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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Howe Lord

(c. 1844 - 1880)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm boy on his parent's place at Stonington, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged at the end of his term of enlistment on 20 September 1864.

After the War

He did not marry and lived in California at some point. He died relatively young, age 36, in 1880.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, notably Kenneth Lord in Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Lord, an Original Proprietor and Founder of Hartford, Conn., in 1636 (1946), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844; Stonington, CT

Death

05/20/1880; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, CT

Notes

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 30790]

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