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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert Grey

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From New Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company E, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 28 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 30 November 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 It is possible he's the Robert Gray (1841 Scotland - 1893 CT) buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford.

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 5543]

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 27141]