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(c. 1846 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
The 15 or 16 year old son of flute maker Adolphus Castle at Fluteville in Litchfield, he gave his age as 19 and enlisted as a Private in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 10 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the neck in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD but died there of wounds on 17 October 1862.
After the War
He was initially buried in Hagerstown and was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from Connecticut.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brother Grove (age 16 or 17, 1845-1915) and cousins (?) Ransom and Wilburn Castle also enlisted with him in Company C. They all survived the war.
More on the Web
There's much more about the flute-making tradition in Litchfield in the Flutist Quarterly [pdf] of the Summer of 2015.
Birth
c. 1846
Death
10/17/1862; Hagerstown, 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 3313]
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 [AotW citation 25090]