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Federal (USV)

Private

William A. Woodworth

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his residence as Bozrah, CT, he enlisted on 10 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.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 His capture at Antietam also in 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. 341  [AotW citation 30819]