(c. 1839 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 21 year old brick maker in Hartford, CT. He enlisted and mustered there as a Private in Company K, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 7 October 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His widow Susan applied for a widow's pension in December 1862 and began receiving $8 per month in February 1863.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1839
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 3394]
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, p. 357 [AotW citation 30659]