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Federal (USV)

Private

Ezra D. Stannard

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 21 year old farmer on his father's place in Clinton, CT, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD with chronic diarrhea on 23 November 1862 but died there on 22 December 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Ezra D. Stonnard. His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a memorial in Cypress Cemetery, Westbrook, CT; the marker there has his death place as Fredericksburg, VA.

Birth

c. 1842

Death

12/22/1862; Frederick, 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 4231]

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. 575 [AotW citation 25125]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #643 [AotW citation 25126]

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