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Federal (USV)

Private

Joseph H. Walker

(? - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Meriden, CT. He enlisted on 18 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 but was mortally wounded in the assault on Fort Darling in the defenses of Richmond, VA on 16 May 1864 and died on 18 July 1864.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 He's also on the casualty list in Major Ward's after-action report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

07/18/1864; Hampton, VA; burial in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, VA

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. 358 [AotW citation 30829]

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