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Federal (USV)

Private

Elliot Fleming

(c. 1824 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Winchester, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 15 August 1862.

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, at least one of whom has him as Elliott Fleming. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His name is also on a monument in Forest View Cemetery in Winstead (Winchester), CT.

He married Louisa Elizabeth (or Elizabeth Louise P.) Newell (1826-1897) in March 1852 in East Windsor, CT, and they had 4 daughters. Louisa filed for a pension based on his service in August 1863.

Birth

c. 1824; Hinsdale, NH

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Melrose Cemetery, East 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 5564]

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. 632 [AotW citation 27180]

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