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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles W. Viets

(1844 - 1922)

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 24 July 1862, 10 days after his 18th birthday.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

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

He married Hattie M Hayes (1848-1915).

Birth

07/14/1844

Death

08/02/1922; burial in Granby Cemetery, Granby, 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 5546]

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. 629 [AotW citation 27145]

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