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Federal (USV)

Private

Bela M. Keith, Jr.

(1843 - ?)

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 11 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action on 17 September 1862 and paroled on 28 September, but was listed as a deserter on 1 October 1862 with no later record.

References & notes

His service information from Ingersoll,1 who says only that he was missing at Antietam and was dropped from the rolls, and the Record.2.

His brothers George and James were also in Company H. James died while a prisoner at Andersonville, GA in September 1864.

Birth

1843

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 5582]

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 27230]

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