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Federal (USV)

Private

Lewis D. King

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his residence as Naugatuck, CT, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured, possibly wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was discharged on 18 September 1865.

After the War

He began receiving a veteran's disability pension in April 1879.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Major Ward's after-action report has him as missing at Antietam.

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. 332 [AotW citation 30814]

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