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Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 25 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was detailed as a Musician and captured, with most of the regiment, at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864. He escaped from the prison camp at Andersonville, GA on 20 August 1864 and rejoined his Company. He was discharged on 7 July 1865.
1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 643 - 663 [AotW citation 5407]