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(c. 1836 - 1872)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a house painter in Cromwell, Middlesex County, CT. Credited from Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 29 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 28 September in Winchester, VA and sent to Camp Parole at Annapolis, MD. When he "failed to report" he was listed as a deserter in November 1862, with no later military record.
After the War
By 1870 he was a shopkeeper in Meriden, CT.
References & notes
His service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Jane M. Ackley (1841-) in September 1858 and they had 5 children.
His brother Charles was mortally wounded at Antietam with Company F of the 16th Infantry.
Birth
c. 1836; Middletown, CT
Death
08/12/1872; burial in East Cemetery, Meriden, 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 5548]
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. 631 [AotW citation 27151]