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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry C. Fanning

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Norwich, age 18, he enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left hip in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting Farm near Keedysville but died there of his wounds on 28 October 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on or near the battlefield to the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Record.2 Hospital detail from Nelson,3 with his wound from Major Ward's after-action report. His age from F.M. Caulkin's History of Norwich (1866). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

10/28/1862; Keedysville, 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 3480]

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. 340  [AotW citation 30615]

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, p. 204  [AotW citation 30619]