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Federal (USV)

Private

David B. Carrier

(1842 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 24 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, where he died of chronic diarrhea on 6 August 1864, 4 days before his 22nd birthday.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/10/1842; Glastonbury, CT

Death

08/06/1864; Andersonville, GA; burial in Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville National Historic Site, GA

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 5518]

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 27083]

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