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(c. 1842 - 1871)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parent's place in Sherman, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 5 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863 and was discharged on 4 October 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
By 1870 he was a clerk in New York City, but he died there the next year, just 29 years old.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report, as Robert Steward. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870, also as Robert Stewart. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Matilda "Tillie" Scott (1847-) in May 1870 in Brooklyn, NY.
Birth
c. 1842 in CT
Death
09/13/1871; burial in Center Cemetery, Sherman, 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. 355 [AotW citation 30803]