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(1843 - 1938)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He came to America with his parents in about 1850 and was a 17 year old clerk in his father's (junk?) store in Hartford, CT in 1860. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 17 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to the 41st Company, 2nd Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on 8 August 1863 and was discharged for disability on 1 January 1865.
After the War
By 1900 and to at least 1930 he was in West Springfield, MA. He was a hotel proprietor there in 1910 but had retired by 1920 and lived with his daughter Fannie.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, and 1900-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Silvia M Richards (1845-1912) and they had a daughter Fannie (1869-1959). He married again, Augusta Sarah Lament (b. 1860) in July 1916 in Brattleboro, VT.
Birth
06/16/1843; Prague, Bohemia, AUSTRIA
Death
11/23/1938; Springfield, MA; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, 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. 656 - 663 [AotW citation 5565]
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 27183]