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Federal (USV)

Private

Oscar Squires

(1842 - 1899)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A mechanic's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his parents in Southbury, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the chest 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

By 1870 he was a grist miller back in Southbury, and in 1880 was a laborer there. About 1888 he became a yard master for the railroad.

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 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriett C "Hattie" Richmond (1848-1920) and they had 2 daughters.

Birth

07/02/1842; Southbury, CT

Death

04/14/1899; Hawleyville, CT; burial in Pierce Hollow Cemetery, Southbury, 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. 355 [AotW citation 30802]

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