Frank Woodbridge Cheney

He was a member of Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing, and lived in Hartford, CT. He enrolled as Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 August 1862 and mustered on the 24th.

He was wounded by a gunshot which "shattered" his left elbow in action at the Lower (Rohrbach, later Burnside) Bridge at Antietam on 17 September 1862. He was initially treated on the field by Assistant Surgeon Nickerson, then in a makeshift hospital in the parlor of the Rohrbach house by Dr Mayer of the 11th Connecticut. He was sent on to a hospital in Washington, DC the next day.

He was sent home and "was deemed in peril of losing arm and life more than once." He resigned his commission and was discharged for disability on Christmas Eve, 1862.

He was Secretary and Treasurer of Cheney Brothers in South Manchester, CT, and was a director or officer in other businesses including banks, railroads, and insurance companies.

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Antietam details from Assistant Surgeon Nathan Mayer's Reminiscences (1904). Personal details from family genealogists and the Connecticut Historical Society. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He gave a talk in Hartford in 1901 about his father's role in the Underground Railroad, and the text of it is online from the Hamilton Avenue Road To Freedom project.

There is an excellent c. 1900 photograph of him online from family genealogists.

Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company in Manchester, in production from 1838-1955, was the primary economy of Manchester, CT (Connecticut Historical Society).

06/05/1832; Providence, RI

05/26/1909; South Manchester, CT; burial in East Cemetery, Manchester, CT