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(1835 - 1911)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A farmer's son from Southington, CT, he enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 5 October, transferred to General Hospital #1 there on 4 March 1863, and sent home on furlough on 30 March 1863. He was discharged on 22 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
By 1870 to at least 1900 he was a laborer and factory worker in Southington. He'd retired there and lived with his daughter Eldora by 1910.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 His wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report and the Patient List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850, 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth VanHorne (1837-1896) in June 1856 and they had 3 children.
Birth
10/03/1835 in CT
Death
03/27/1911; Southington, CT; burial in South End Burying Ground, Southington, 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. 356 [AotW citation 30804]
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 #134 [AotW citation 30805]