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Federal (USV)

Private

David W. Price, Jr.

(c. 1845 - 1910)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents and 2 younger brothers at Stonington, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the hand 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.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1845 in CT

Death

1910

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 30791]