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Federal (USV)

Private

William Webster

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 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter at Antietam on 17 September 1862 with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2

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 5535]

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 27109]