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(1842 - 1927)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Meriden, CT. He enlisted on 18 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F, First Connecticut Infantry for 3 months' service on 22 April. He mustered out with them on 31 July. He enlisted again, on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September. He was promoted to Sergeant on 7 April 1862.
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 reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was appointed First Sergeant on 1 March 1864. He was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company D on 9 April 1865 and was discharged on 14 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a machinist in New Haven, CT and in 1880, still a machinist, was living in Middletown, CT. In 1900 he was a tool maker in Waterbury, CT and in 1910 was a foreman in a manufacturing company there. He'd finally retired in Waterbury by 1920, then 77 years old.
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 1870-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Elizabeth "Nellie" Dunlop (1849-1931) in about 1869 and they had 2 daughters, born in 1871 and 1875.
Birth
03/03/1842
Death
12/21/1927; burial in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, 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, pp. 13, 339, 356 [AotW citation 30828]