[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Wetmore

(c. 1836 - 1892)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Colchester, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 17 June 1865.

After the War

In 1880 he was a house carpenter in Hartford, CT and lived next door to his wife's parents.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Florilla A. Shailer (1839-1932) in December 1855 at East Haddam, CT and they had a daughter Albatina (1857-1861).

Birth

c. 1836

Death

01/14/1892; burial in Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, 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 5586]

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 27243]

« Search for another Person