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(c. 1819 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
From Stafford, he enlisted as Sergeant, Company I, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 7 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by gunshot in the left knee in action on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Locust Spring and Smoketown Hospitals, Sharpsburg, and had his leg amputated in October, but died of wounds there on 21 October 1862.
After the War
He was originally buried at Smoketown, but his body was taken home and reinterred in Stafford.
References & notes
Service information from Ingersoll1, which his his death on 25 September, and the Record,2 as Rufus Chamberlain. His stay at Locust Spring from Nelson,3 who cites Army Corps Hospital Register 328, in the National
Archives, Washington, DC. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His son Rufus M. Chamberlin (1844-1914), Private, Company I, was not hurt at Antietam and probably helped tend his father afterward.
More on the Web
More about his death and aftermath from a fine blog post by John Banks.
Birth
c. 1819
Death
10/21/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Hillside Cemetery, Stafford, 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 5592]
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 27266]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 159 [AotW citation 17279]