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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Michael Grace

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862. When Private William Relyea came upon him, he was on his hands and knees apparently looking for something. Actually dead, Grace had been "telescoped from end to end" by a cannonball.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Relyea's recollection from his history of the regiment published by John Michael Priest and students in 16th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry: Sergeant William H. Relyea (2002). Personal details from John Banks' research. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a stone in Old St. Patrick Cemetery in Enfield.

Birth

c. 1827 in IRELAND

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; 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 5513]

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 27088]

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