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Federal (USV)

Private

Orville Merritt Wilson

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his father's place in Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, CT; he was known as Merritt, probably to distinguish him from his father Orville. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 28 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 2 November 1862. He was originally buried on the field and 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 as Orvil M. Wilson. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/24/1841; Lictchfield County, CT

Death

11/02/1862; 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 4366]

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. 633 [AotW citation 27202]

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