John Fuller Bingham

From East Haddam, with his brother Wells he enlisted in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862 at 17 years old.

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

Basic information from Ingersoll1, with burial detail from John Banks, who also posted photographs of John and his brother, from the Military and Historical Image Bank.

In March 2015 the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford acquired the Bingham Family Civil War Memorial Secretary (c.1876), "an extraordinary folk art triumph that abstracts traditional forms of 19th century furniture with Civil War-era imagery and text executed in bone, horn and abalone" [pictures from Hyperallergic]

10/25/1844; East Haddam, CT

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Little Church Cemetery, East Haddam, CT