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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Elijah Munsell

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

A wool sorter from East Windsor, he enlisted as a Private in Rifle Company A, 3rd Connecticut Infantry for 3 months' service on 25 May 1861 and mustered out with them on 12 August 1861. He enlisted again, in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862 and mustered as a Corporal on 24 August.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists.

He married Lucy Lavinia Davenport (later Allen, 1840-1912) in May 1861.

Birth

01/1830; Wapping, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old Wapping Cemetery, South Windsor, 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. 656 - 663 [AotW citation 5556]

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, pp. 37, 631 [AotW citation 26977]

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