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Federal (USV)

Private

Winthrop Walden, Jr.

(1836 - 1872)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 23 year old farm worker living with his widowed mother and 2 younger sisters on (their uncle?) William Williams' farm at Palmerton, CT. Giving his residence as Norwich, he enlisted on 28 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 1 October.

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 was discharged on 9 October 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

After the War

By 1870 he was working in a slaughter house and lived with his mother and sister Sarah in Norwich, CT. Like his father, he died relatively young at about age 35.

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 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1836

Death

1872; burial in Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT

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. 341 [AotW citation 30818]

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