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Federal (USV)

Private

William Massey

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Bolton, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 30 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in a finger in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He mustered out with the regiment on 24 June 1865 in New Bern, NC.

References & notes

His service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2. Wound detail from a casualty list in the Hartford Courant of 23 September 1862.

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 5584]

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 27231]

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