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Federal (USV)

Private

Orville Sprague

(c. 1839 - 1899)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Brookfield, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company I, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 2 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and captured there on the 19th.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 6 October 1862. He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was wounded again, on 15 June 1864 at Petersburg, VA. He was discharged for disability on 18 July 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was working in a (shoe?) factory in Huntington, CT.

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 family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E. (?; 1844-) and they had a daughter, Orvillia (c. 1862-).

Birth

c. 1839; Poughkeepsie, NY

Death

09/10/1899; Stratford, CT; burial in Union Cemetery, Stratford, 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. 355 [AotW citation 30827]

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