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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Henry E. Strickland

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a factory overseer in New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT. He enlisted on 3 September 1861 and mustered as a Sergeant in Company C, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the left thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 while bearing the regiment's national colors.

The rest of the War

He died from wounds on 17 October 1862 at the Crystal Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysvile, MD and was buried nearby.

After the War

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

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Julia Chidsey (1839-1876) and they had two daughters, Ida (1855-1920) and Adelaide (1859-).

Birth

c. 1830; Warren, CT

Death

10/17/1862; 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 4234]

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 [AotW citation 25797]

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