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(1844 - 1909)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to Massachusetts with his family in 1849 at age 5 and was a 17 year old machine operator in a textile mill in Enfield, CT when he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in his leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Corporal on 16 April 1864 but was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and held at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 28 February 1865 and mustered out on 24 June 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was an overseer in a woolen mill in Ellington, CT. In 1880 he was a merchant in Groton, CT, and by 1900 he was map seller (agent) in Fitchburg, MA.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record,2 both as Henry Lacy. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Pearce (1846-1935) in Providence, RI in June 1866 and they had 7 children.
Birth
09/1844; Leicestershire, ENGLAND
Death
08/30/1909; Fitchburg, MA; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, MA
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 5525]
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 27090]