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Federal (USV)

Private

James Bradley Fuller

(1828 - 1886)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A 32 year old wood turner in Farmington, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 7 April 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was again turning wood in Farmington. In 1880 he was a joiner there.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862, as James B. Foley. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emeline E Hosford (1832-1905) in May 1851 in Farmington and they had 7 children.

Birth

08/24/1828; Hartford, CT

Death

08/27/1886; Unionville, CT; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Unionville, 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 5506]

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. 624 [AotW citation 27030]

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