[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

John Cleary

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From East Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 18 April 1864 but was captured two days later at Plymouth, NC. He was a prisoner at Andersonville, GA, paroled on 10 December 1864, and was discharged on 10 June 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2

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 5561]

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 27179]

« Search for another Person