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Federal (USV)

Private

Cornelius Wildman

(1844 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Somers, he enlisted as a Private in Company A, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 21 July 1862, not yet 18 years old.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists.

His brother Henry C. Wildman (b. 1842) was killed at Bermuda Hundred, VA in June 1864 while a Private in Company B, 7th Connecticut Infantry.

Birth

08/11/1844; Springfield, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 5420]

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 26981]

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