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(1840 - 1917)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Prospect, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 6 October 1862. He was wounded again, at Port Walthall Junction, VA on 7 May 1864 and was discahrged at the end of his term enlistment on 4 October 1864.
After the War
By 1880 he was back in Prospect, CT. He was a painter there in 1900 but had retired by 1910.
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 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married the widow Esther A. Mathews Daley (1832-1911), probably after 1866: Philo was a witness on her 1866 application for an increase to her widow's pension from her marriage to Henry P Daley, late 6th Connecticut Infantry, who died in September 1864.
Birth
12/07/1840 in CT
Death
03/07/1917; Prospect, CT; burial in Prospect Town Cemetery, Prospect, 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. 343 [AotW citation 30823]