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Federal (USV)

Private

Nelson E. Snow

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Suffield, CT, he enlisted on 11 August and mustered as Private, Company D, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 24 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

After the War

His mother Olive began receiving a pension of $8 a month in April 1868 for his service, later consolidated with one for his father.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1. His memorial (possibly a cenotaph) is on Findagrave.

More on the Web

See more about Private Snow and his comrades of the 16th Connecticut in a post on John Banks' Civil War.

Birth

12/12/1838; Becket, MA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in West Suffield Cemetery, Suffield, CT

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. 651 - 663  [AotW citation 5532]