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Federal (USV)

Private

Maranthon Hiram Keeney

(1843 - 1926)

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 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right arm and hand, "crippled by bullet" in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 2 April 1863.

After the War

He was a farmer in Manchester, CT for the rest of his life.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the 1917 Connecticut Military Census, and the US Census of 1900-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan Florietta Belknap (1854-1940) and they had 10 children between 1879 and 1897.

Birth

08/09/1843; Manchester, CT

Death

09/15/1926; Manchester, CT; burial in West 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 5583]

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 27228]

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