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Federal (USV)

Private

James Grugan

(? - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Simsbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 18 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and was buried on the battlefield.

The rest of the War

He was reinterred from his original burial to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as James Gengan. Service information from Ingersoll,2 as James Greegin, and the Record,3 as James Grugan. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has him as James Greegin.

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 3540]

2 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5595]

3 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. 636 [AotW citation 27001]

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