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Federal (USV)

Private

Ham Allen Barnes

(1834 - 1864)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartland, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 2 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability in October 1863 but enlisted again in Company I, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery on 5 January 1864. He was injured on 26 May 1864 at Noel's Station, VA and died of disease on 18 (or 4 or 14) June 1864 at Mt. Pleasant Hospital, Washington, DC.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Adelaide Sarah Roberts (later Oppenheimer, 1837-1889) in Southwick, MA in October 1855 and they had 4 children.

Birth

1834; Granby, CT

Death

06/18/1864; Washington, DC; burial in East Hartland Cemetery, Hartland, 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 5540]

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, pp. 206, 628 [AotW citation 27113]

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