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(1841 - 1882)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his widowed mother Mercy and brother Emerson in Killingworth, CT. He enlisted on 20 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was slightly wounded in the knee in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was appointed regimental Quartermaster Sergeant on 1 July 1865. He mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farm worker in Guilford, CT and in 1880 he was farming in Branford, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 His 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 Eliza (?; 1846-) in January 1864 and they had 3 children. He married again, by 1880, Sarah M. Burr (later Clark; 1843-1903) and they had 2 more.
Birth
09/12/1841; Killingworth, CT
Death
04/22/1882; burial in Bare Plain Cemetery, North Branford, 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, pp. 330, 358 [AotW citation 30807]