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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Randall O. Bostick

(c. 1841 - 1894)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to America before 1850 when he was living with McCrones (relatives?) in Enfield, CT. At about age 22 he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 20 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter on 17 September 1862 at Antietam with no later military record.

The rest of the War

By 1870 he was a vegetable marketer in Enfield, CT. In 1880 he was a farmer there.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll,1 as Randall Bostwick, and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Anna Joey (1843-1909) and they had 7 children between 1859 and 1873.

Birth

c. 1841; Cheshire, ENGLAND

Death

04/12/1894; burial in Thompsonville Cemetery, Enfield, 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 5511]

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 27082]

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