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Federal (USV)

Private

Seth Franklin Prior

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A farmer at East Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, notably Orrin Peer Allen in The Allen Memorial: Descendants of Samuel Allen of Windsor ... (1907), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to John Banks for his first name.

He married Emily Jane Barber (1834-1930) in March 1852 and they had 2 children.

Birth

10/02/1830; East Windsor, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Town Street Cemetery, East Windsor, 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. 647 - 663 [AotW citation 5499]

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 26983]

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