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Federal (USV)

Private

John B. Letcher

(? - 1865)

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 21 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 21 January 1863 but later reduced again to Private. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA and Florence, SC. He was paroled on 27 February 1865 but died on 5 March 1865 at Wright General Hospital, Wilmington, NC.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. His death place thanks to Edward Boots' Roster from the Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims Descendants Society.

Death

03/05/1865; Wilmington, NC

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. 650 - 663 [AotW citation 5524]

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 27094]

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