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(1841 - 1918)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A carpenter's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents and 6 siblings in Essex, Middlesex County, CT. He enlisted on 24 October 1861 and mustered on 14 November as a Corporal in Company K, 11th Connecticut Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, which broke the head of his humerus (upper arm) bone. Surgeon M. Storrs of the 8th Connecticut Infantry removed the shattered part of the humerus the same day.
The rest of the War
He was treated in the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville, and was discharged for disability on 14 January 1863.
After the War
By 1869 he was in Indiana and in 1873 a pension examiner noted his "muscular action destroyed; arm very weak." In 1880 he was a US gauger (measurer for customs duties) at Evansville, IN. By 1893 and to at least 1915 he was a clerk in Washington, DC in the Treasury Department, US Life-Saving Service (US Coast Guard as of 1915).
References & notes
His service basics from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and the Official Register of the United States (1893, 1915). His memorial is on Findagrave.
He married Susan Harriett Treat (1843-1906) and they had 2 sons.
Birth
1841; Centerbrook, CT
Death
01/31/1918; Washington, DC
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 [AotW citation 32179]
2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 370 [AotW citation 32180]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 560 [AotW citation 32181]