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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. Kitchen

(c. 1830 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864. He was at Andersonville, GA and died on 15 November 1864 while a prisoner in Florence, SC.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists. He may have been buried as an "unknown" in Florence National Cemetery.

He married Sarah Jane Hatch (1830-1912) in May 1850 in Granby, CT and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1830 in CT

Death

11/15/1864; Florence, SC

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. 647 - 663 [AotW citation 5497]

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. 623 [AotW citation 27018]

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