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Federal (USV)

Private

William N. Cullumns

(1844 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Glastonbury, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 18 August 1862, 5 days after his father.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His father George S. Cullumns (1820-1863) was also in Company H and died of disease in a hospital in Washington, DC in February 1863.

Birth

1844; Hartford County, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, 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 5580]

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 27221]

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