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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Aldrich

(1821 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 39 year old blacksmith working for a clock-making firm in Bristol. He enlisted as a Private in Company K, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 24 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was originally buried with others of his unit on the Otto Farm at Sharpsburg, but reinterred in the National Cemetery during or before 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 which has him as Aldritch. His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Sarah Ann Peck Duffee (1821-1904) and they had a son Hubert Henry Aldrich (1861-1927). It is likely they were also raising 3 surviving children from her first marriage.

More on the Web

See more about him from John Banks who posted his research on his blog.

Birth

1821 in MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869  [AotW citation 3152]

2   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, pg. 637  [AotW citation 27327]