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Federal (USV)

Private

Timothy Gladding

(c. 1831 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 29 year old laborer in Farmington, CT. He enlisted there as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 Service information from the Record,2 as Timothy Gladden. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, some also as Gladden. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Celeste Maria Lee (1837-1865) in December 1855 in Farmington and they had two daughters, Lizzie and Anna, by 1860.

Birth

c. 1831 in CT

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 3552]

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 27181]

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