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W.A. Washburn
(1836 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old farmer on his father's place in Berlin, Hartford County, CT. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 8 August 1862 and mustered as First (Orderly) Sergeant of the Company on 24 August.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was originally buried on the Otto Farm near Sharpsburg, but his father the Rev. Asahel Cornwall Washburn (1800-1883) retrieved his remains and buried him in Berlin, CT on 13 October 1862.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Burial details from an article by Kristen Duke. His gravesite is on Findagrave. The photo here from one at the Connecticut State Library, kindly provided by John Banks.
Birth
08/15/1836; Royalton, VT
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Bridge Cemetery, Berlin, 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 5550]
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 27201]