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Federal (USV)

Private

John Persse

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 22 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September but transferred out, possibly to Philadelphia, on 30 September 1862. He was captured at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864 and was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA. He was paroled on 28 February 1865 and mustered out with the regiment at New Bern, NC on 24 June 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Hospital detail from the Patient List,3 as John Pieser. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862, as J. Pierce.

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 5530]

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 27100]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #582 [AotW citation 27103]

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