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Federal (USV)

Corporal

William H. Cook

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

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

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 11 February 1863. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company G, First Connecticut Cavalry on 8 January 1864 and was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1864. He was captured on 1 July 1864 at Ream's Station, VA and was paroled on 6 December 1864. He was discharged on 11 July 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2

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 5503]

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. 82, 624 [AotW citation 27029]

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