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(1838 - 1904)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Brookfield, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 10 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 3 October, transferred to GH #1 there on 15 January 1863, and sent home on a furlough on 30 March 1863. He was discharged on 10 October 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment. He had later service in the 159th Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps.
After the War
By about 1870 he was a railroad conductor living on 6th Avenue in New York City. In 1880, still a conductor, he lived in New Haven, CT but by 1900 he was a resident of Fitch's Home for Soldiers in the Noroton Heights section of Darien, CT. He was buried in the Home's cemetery on his death in 1904 at about 66 years.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 and his Veteran's Pension Cards, online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has him as Abel Booth Lattin, the US Census of 1850, 1880, & 1900, and Trow's City Directory (1870). His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
02/17/1838; Brookfield, CT
Death
12/13/1904; burial in Veterans Cemetery, Darien, CT
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. 354 [AotW citation 30797]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #696 [AotW citation 30798]