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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

John David Seeley

(1836 - 1905)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old hatter living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm at Newtown, CT. He enlisted on 14 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 29 April 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was reduced to Private on 20 February 1864. He was discharged for disability on 22 July 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a book agent boarding with the Birdsey Gilbert family in Southbury, New Haven County, CT. In 1880 he was a carpenter and joiner in Southbury and in 1900 was a carpenter in Brookfield, Fairfield County, CT.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/1836; Newtown, CT

Death

11/14/1905; North Branford, CT; burial in Lands End Cemetery, Newtown, 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. 353 [AotW citation 30794]

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