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(1839 - 1915)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old papermaker, like his father, living with his parents and siblings in Norwich, CT. 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 wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 19 January 1863 and began receiving a veteran's pension soon after.
After the War
By 1870 he was working in a paper mill in Holyoke, MA but in 1880 he was a peddler of "small wares" and lived in Ledyard, CT. In 1900 he was again a papermaker, in Groton, CT.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Major Ward has him as missing at Antietam in his after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as James Munroe Bacon.
He married Lydia Amanda Maynard (1845-1929) and they had 5 children between 1865 and 1872. He married again, Sarah Cooley Hollister (1843-1932) in 1887.
Birth
05/20/1839; Hebron, CT
Death
02/02/1915; Groton, CT; burial in Colonel Ledyard Cemetery, Groton, 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. 340 [AotW citation 30820]