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Federal (USV)

Private

Arthur DeNeufville Talcott

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Education: Yale College, Class of 1863

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a successful farmer at West Hartford, he left Yale after his Freshman year (1859-60) and enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He returned to his Company but died of a fever in camp at Falmouth, VA on 3 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, and his profile in the A History of the Class of 1863, Yale College (1905). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/133/1842; West Hartford, CT

Death

12/03/1862; Falmouth, VA

Notes

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 5419]

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. 621 [AotW citation 27014]

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