Henry Martin Adams

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farmer on his widowed mother's place in East Windsor, CT. He was a teacher there when he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.

He was seriously wounded by a gunshot that broke his right thigh bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He lay out in the open for 17 hours after being wounded. He was treated on the Sherrick farm, the Lutheran Reform Church, and lastly at the Big Spring/Locust Spring field hospital, all near Sharpsburg. He was discharged for disability on 1 April 1863 at Hagerstown, MD.

By 1870 he was a public school teacher back in East Windsor, then living with his mother and 3 grown siblings. In 1900 he was superintendent of the Hartford County Temporary Home for Dependent Children and in 1910 he was again a public school teacher, then in Hartford, CT.

His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a list of Cases of Gunshot fractured femurs at Battle of Antietam by Surgeon Truman Squire, 89th New York Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, 1900, and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His photograph - from one at the US Army Military History Institute (USAMHI) - kindly provided by John Banks.

He married Abalena Howe Beebe (1838-1911) in December 1871.

08/18/1840; Sheffield, MA

07/09/1922; East Windsor, CT; burial in Melrose Cemetery, East Windsor, CT