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Federal (USV)

Private

Jonas Wentworth

(c. 1819 - 1889)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered in Hartford as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots to his right hip, right arm, and index finger of his right hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 28 February 1863 in Baltimore, MD.

After the War

By then a painter in Green Bay, WI, he was admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Milwaukee, WI on 12 October 1883 and died there of dropsy (edema, probably from heart failure) on 13 February 1889.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from the Registers of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1819 in NY

Death

02/13/1889; Milwaukee, WI; burial in Wood National Cemetery, Milwaukee, WI

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. 338 [AotW citation 30833]

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