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Federal (USV)

Private

Patrick Conlon

(c. 1829 - 1881)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 31 year old day laborer in Stonington, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 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 on 20 September 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.

After the War

By 1870 he was again a laborer in Stonington.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 He's also on the casualty list in Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine (?; c. 1832-bef. 1870) and they had at least 3 children by 1860.

Birth

c. 1829 in IRELAND

Death

12/07/1881; burial in Saint Mary Cemetery, Stonington, 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. 349 [AotW citation 30825]

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