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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Olney Winsor, Jr.

(1834 - 1908)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Sterling, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company F, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was listed as missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private, date not given. He reenlisted on 5 January 1864, was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1864 and Sergeant on 1 March 1865, and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer back in Sterling.

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 1870 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda Bennett (1835-1902) in September 1861 and they had 5 children.

Birth

09/16/1834; Johnston, RI

Death

12/15/1908; in CT; burial in Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield, 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. 345 [AotW citation 30824]

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