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H. Barnett
(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was a 30 year old cigar maker from Suffield. He mustered into service 12 August 1862 as Private in Company D of the 14th Connecticut Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried on the Otto Farm at Sharpsburg, but his wife later had his body returned to Connecticut.
References & notes
Basic information from Ingersoll1. Thanks to John Banks for posting his research about Barnett and a photograph of him on his blog. The original image is in the collection of the Connecticut State Library.
Birth
c. 1832 in ENGLAND
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Center 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 5517]