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Federal (USV)

Private

Stephen B. Huling

(1836 - 1895)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 24 year old mechanic in Windham Center, CT. He enlisted on 3 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 was promoted to Corporal on 1 October 1863 and was wounded at Port Walthall Junction, VA on 7 May 1864. He was discharged on 20 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

After the War

By 1880 he was a carriage maker in Norwich, 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 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Josephine Billings (1845-1885) in December 1857 and they had 8 or 9 children.

Birth

1836 in RI

Death

12/07/1895; Preston, CT; 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. 339 [AotW citation 30821]

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