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Federal (USV)

Private

Rufus Johnson

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 7 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 1 October 1862 and transferred to Camp B/GH#1 in Frederick on 15 January 1863. He was sent on to Baltimore on 9 March 1863 and was discharged for disability on 3 August 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

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 5581]

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 27227]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.320, 562 [AotW citation 27229]

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