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(1839 - 1928)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker on his parents farm at Scotland, Windham County, CT. Giving his residence as Lebanon, 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 wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged for disability on 25 December 1862.
After the War
In 1880 he was a farmer at Chaplin in Windham County. By 1900 and to at least 1907 he was farming the "Brewster homestead" at Sprague in New London County, CT. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1874 and it was raised to $30 per month in 1914. He had retired to Norwich, CT by 1920.
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, notably Emma C. Brewster Jones in The Brewster Genealogy (1907), and the US Census of 1860, 1880, 1900, and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Julia H Brewster (1841-1902) in November 1866 and they had 4 children.
He married again, Harriet (?; c. 1850-), before 1920; his veteran's pension record notes his widow receiving benefits beginning in October 1928.
Birth
06/20/1839; Sprague, CT
Death
10/12/1928; Norwich, CT; burial in Pautipaug Cemetery, Franklin, 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. 341 [AotW citation 30822]