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Federal (USV)

Private

Henry B. Annis

(c. 1821 - 1883)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Manchester, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 5 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the chest 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 30 September 1863 and was discharged for disability on 23 June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1821; Manchester, CT

Death

02/11/1883; Hartford County, CT; burial in Buckland Cemetery, Manchester, 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. 658 - 663  [AotW citation 5577]

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. 634  [AotW citation 27203]