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Federal (USV)

Private

John Loveland

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as Private in Company C of the 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the hospital in the German Reformed Church in Sharpsburg on 5 October and his leg as amputated on the 7th, but he died of his wounds on 16 October 1862. He was reinterred from his original burial in Sharpsburg to the National Cemetery about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, with service details from Ingersoll,2 who says he died 18 September. Medical and hospital details from Nelson3 quoting Surgeon E. M. McDowell's casebook. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

10/16/1862; 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 3819]

2 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 649 [AotW citation 5495]

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, pp. 60-61 [AotW citation 26809]

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