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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Tudor

(1830 - 1865)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, a member of an old and prominent Connecticut family, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 22 July 1862, giving his name as Wilmer H. Johnson.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He transferred to Company H as a Musician on 8 September 1863 and mustered out on 24 June 1865. He died soon after he was discharged, at age 34 on 13 July 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/05/1830

Death

07/13/1865; burial in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT

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 5425]

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, pp. 623, 633 [AotW citation 27016]

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