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Federal (USV)

Private

Oscar A. Sweetland

(1838 - 1905)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old in Wallingford, CT. He enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 30 September 1861.

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 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

By 1880 he was a news dealer in New York City, and in 1900 he was a dry food packer at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx.

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 1860, 1880, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lida Stevens (c. 1840-) in about 1871.

Birth

12/1838 in NY

Death

06/11/1905; Oxford, NY; burial in Riverview Cemetery, Oxford, NY

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 30830]

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