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(1833 - 1890)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Willington, he enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 12 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on 2 October 1862.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer and currier in Stafford, CT, and was farming in Wellington with his father Ark (Archibald) in 1880. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 57 in Longmeadow, MA, probably at his daughter Alfaretta Jane's (Stebbins) home.
References & notes
His service from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 His presence at Antietam from an account he wrote on behalf of Rufus Chamberlin's widow Amanda in 1863. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Jane Eliza "Jennie" Prouty (1844-1873) on 19 August 1862, a week after he was commissioned, and they had 3 children. He married again, Sarah J (b. 1843).
Birth
04/28/1833; Willington, CT
Death
09/22/1890; Longmeadow, MA; burial in Village Hill Cemetery, Willington, CT
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. 660 - 663 [AotW citation 5589]
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. 635 [AotW citation 27275]