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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry Lyman Porter

(1840 - 1920)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Berlin, he enlisted as a Private in Company G, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 6 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 19 February 1863.

After the War

In 1910 he was the Postmaster of Berlin, CT.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Louisa Wilson (1841-1874) in January 1861 in Berlin, CT, and they had a daughter Mary. He married again, Ruda Carter (b. 1846).

Birth

01/04/1840; Berlin, CT

Death

07/12/1920; Berlin, CT; burial in Maple Cemetery, Berlin, 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 5569]

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 27196]

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