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(1839 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old working on his widowed mother's farm in Haddam, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862, credited to Farmington, CT.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the groin in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of his wounds on 11 (or 13) October 1862 at the Locust Spring Hospital on the Geeting Farm at Keedysville near Sharpsburg, MD.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial on the field to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from the Record,2 which says he died on 11 December 1862. Hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, notably Charles Burr Todd in A General History of the Burr Family in America (1878), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a stone in a family cemetery in Higganum, CT, which may be a cenotaph.
More on the Web
See more about Francis and his brother Bela, also wounded at Antietam, in a blog post by John Banks.
Birth
09/06/1839; Haddam, CT
Death
10/11/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3277]
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. 632 [AotW citation 27176]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 150 [AotW citation 27177]