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(1843 - 1941)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old worker in a carpet mill living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and 3 younger siblings in Granby, Simsbury, CT. He enlisted on 25 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 26 October 1864 at the end of his term of enlistment.
After the War
In 1870 he was working in a hardware shop in New Britain, CT, but by 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a tool maker in a factory in Hartford. He'd retired there by 1920. By 1930 he was living with children and grandchildren in St. Petersburg, FL, and in 1940, then age 96, with his daughter Leila, still in St. Petersburg.
References & notes
His service from the Record.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1940.
He married Anna Barber (1840-1924) in 1868 and they had 6 children between 1870 and 1880 (three died in childhood).
Birth
12/19/1843; Simsbury, CT
Death
02/23/1941; Saint Petersburg, FL; burial in Hartford, 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, p. 336 [AotW citation 30831]