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(c. 1825 - 1880)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
He was in Norwich, CT by 1850 and in 1860 he was a 31 year old carman (cart driver) there. He enlisted on 15 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.
On the Campaign
He was captured 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 mustered out on 12 December 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was again a carman back in Norwich.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 His capture at Antietam also in Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850-1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Margaret A "Marjorie" Hilliard (c. 1823-1851) before 1850, and they had a son John in 1847 and daughter Anna in 1850. He married again, Elizabeth H "Eliza" Wilbur (1822-1908) in January 1854 and they had another son, Frank, in 1860.
Birth
c. 1825 in ENGLAND
Death
05/10/1880; burial in Hilliard Cemetery, Salem, 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. 361 [AotW citation 30817]