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Federal (USV)

Private

William Kent

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his residence as Enfield, CT, he enlisted on 1 October 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862. He reenlisted on 5 January 1864 and was discharged for disability on 9 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His wounding and capture at Antietam from Major Ward's after-action report.

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. 335  [AotW citation 30815]