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(1826 - 1909)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 35 year old cigar maker in Suffield, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the left forearm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His forearm was amputated and he was transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veterans Reserve Corps on 2 December 1863. He was discharged for disability on 15 March 1864.
After the War
He made and sold cigars, was Postmaster of Suffield, and raised chickens there.
References & notes
More on the Web
See a fine post-War photograph and much more about Richard courtesy of John Banks, from a blog post.
Birth
08/14/1826; Spotswood, NJ
Death
11/21/1909; Suffield, CT; burial in Zion's Hill Cemetery, Suffield, CT
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 5508]
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. 626 [AotW citation 27089]
