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Federal (USV)

Private

William G. Mitchell

(? - 1865)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, he enlisted as a Private in Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862, married on the 16th, and mustered on the 24th.

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 and Florence, SC, where he died in the prison hospital on 18 January 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Death detail thanks to Edward Boots' Roster from the Civil War Plymouth Pilgrims Descendants Society. Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Martha Cullen (1847-1892) in August 1862.

Death

01/18/1865; Florence, SC

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 5526]

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. 627 [AotW citation 27097]

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