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(1841 - 1901)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his father Elam's place at Simsbury, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
His leg was amputated at a field hospital on 17 September, and again, higher on his thigh, by Hartford surgeon P.W. Ellsworth in October 1862. He was discharged for disability on 16 October 1862 and began receiving a pension as an invalid in June 1864.
After the War
In 1870 he was again living with his parents in Simsbury, but by 1880 was a musician in New Haven. By 1892 he was still a musician, but was back in Simsbury and represented them in the Connecticut State House of Representatives that term.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Amputation details from the MSHWR.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 (John E Case was the enumerator in 1900), and the Connecticut Register and Manual for 1892. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Luriette S Humphrey (1849-1929) in June 1875 in Bloomfield, CT and they had a son John Elam Case, Jr. (1877-1945). She received an Army widow's pension until her death.
Birth
04/16/1841; Simsbury, CT
Death
01/02/1901; Simsbury, CT; burial in Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, CT
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 5541]
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. 628 [AotW citation 27137]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870, Volume 2, Part 3, pg. 280 (case #31) [AotW citation 27138]