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Federal (USV)

Private

Erwin B. Lillie

(1841 - 1917)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 23 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and lost two fingers.

The rest of the War

He was transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863 and was discharged on 22 July 1865.

After the War

By 1900 he was a mason and builder in New Haven, CT and he was a school janitor there in 1910.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll,1 as Edwin B. Lillie, and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from the US Census of 1900 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary A Bradley (1847-1912).

Birth

1841; Windham, CT

Death

1917; burial in East Lawn Cemetery, East Haven, 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 5507]

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. 625 [AotW citation 27032]

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