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(1841 - 1924)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
A farmer's son, giving his residence as Meriden, CT, he enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled, treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville, then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 5 December. He was discharged there for disability on 5 March 1863.
He enlisted again, on 9 February 1865, in New York City, as a Private in Company B, 6th United States Cavalry. On 12 August 1865 he was appointed First Sergeant of Company E, served in Texas, and was discharged at the end of his enlistment on 9 February 1868 at Buffalo Springs, TX.
After the War
In 1870 he was a clerk in Willie Kyle's grocery store in Bethel, CT but by 1880 he worked in a hat factory there. In 1900 he was making hats in Norwalk, CT. By 1910 and to at least 1920 he was Adjutant and Inspector of Fitch's Home for Soldiers in Darien, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record 1 and the Registers.2 Wound and hospital details from Major Ward's after-action report, the Patient List,3 and Nelson.4 Personal details from family genealogists, notably J.M. Pelton's Genealogy of the Pelton Family in America (1892), and the US Census of 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Emily Alice Fillow (1849-1904) in March 1870 and they had 3 children. He married again, Mary W. L. (?; 1856-1942) by 1910.
Birth
08/18/1841; Great Barrington, MA
Death
12/21/1924; in CT; burial in Center Cemetery, Bethel, 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. 357 [AotW citation 30808]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 60, p. 315 [AotW citation 30811]
3 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 #861 [AotW citation 30809]
4 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 348 [AotW citation 30810]